Publications
Flexible Strategies for Coping with Rainfall Variability: Seasonal Adjustments in Cropped Area in the Ganges Basin
Christian Siderius, Hester Biemans, Paul E. V. van Walsum, Ekko C. van Ierland, Pavel Kabat and Petra J. G. J. Hellegers. In: PLOS, 2016
Water resources transfers through southern African food trade: water efficiency and climate signals
We combine global hydrological model simulations with international food trade data to quantify the water resources embedded in international food trade in southern Africa and with the rest of the world, from 1986–2011. read more »
Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons
We assess the robustness of cooperation to environmental variability in a stylized model of a community that harvests a shared resource. read more »
Rights to the forest, REDD+ and elections: Mining in Guyana
This paper examines the impact of electoral cycles and the introduction of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) policy upon the holding of small-scale mining property rights in Guyana. … read more »
Invention and diffusion of water supply and water efficiency technologies: insights from a global patent dataset
This paper identifies over 50,000 patents filed worldwide in various water-related technologies between 1990 and 2010, distinguishing between those related to availability (supply) and conservation (demand) technologies. Patenting activity is … read more »
Public goods and ethnic diversity: evidence from deforestation in Indonesia
This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit … read more »
Measuring total social income of a stone pine afforestation in Huelva (Spain)
We apply an experimental ecosystem accounting approach aimed at estimating the contribution of ecosystem services to total social income accrued from a Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) forest as the … read more »
Monitoring local well-being in environmental interventions: a consideration of practical trade-offs
Paper considers the practical trade-offs policy makers and practitioners must navigate when utilizing the concept of well-being in environmental interventions. read more »
Sick of noise: the health effects of loud neighbours and urban din
This paper analyses the health effects of residential noise annoyance using a high quality longitudinal survey of over 5000 adults in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2013. read more »
Tracing the water-energy-food nexus: description, theory and practice
The ‘nexus’ between water, energy and food (WEF) has gained increasing attention globally in research, business and policy spheres. We review the premise of recent initiatives framed around the nexus, … read more »
