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Scientific publications

  • Alessia Matanó et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 064048, Compound and consecutive drought-flood events at a global scale, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad4b46
  • Mazzoleni, M., Mondino, E., Matanó, A., Van Loon, A., & Barendrecht, M. (2024). Modelling the role of multiple risk attitudes in implementing adaptation measures to reduce drought and flood losses. Journal of Hydrology, 636, 131305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131305
  • Barendrecht, M.H., Matanó, A., Mendoza, H., Weesie, R., Rohse, M., Koehler, J., de Ruiter, M., Garcia, M., Mazzoleni, M., Aerts, J. C. J. H., Ward, P. J., Di Baldassarre, G., Day, R., & Van Loon, A. F. (2024). Exploring drought-to-flood interactions and dynamics: A global case review. WIREs Water, e1726. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1726
  • Savelli, E., Mazzoleni, M., Di Baldassarre, G., Cloke, H., & Rusca, M. (2023). Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption. Nature Sustainability. (In Press)
  • Mazzoleni, M., & Brandimarte, L. (2023). Modelling flood awareness in floodplain dynamics. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2023.2177543
  • Amaranto, A., & Mazzoleni, M. (2023). B-AMA: A Python-coded protocol to enhance the application of data-driven models in hydrology. Environmental Modelling & Software, 160, 105609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105609
  • Matanó, A., de Ruiter, M. C., Koehler, J., Ward, P. J., & Van Loon, A. F. (2022). Caught Between Extremes: Understanding Human‐Water Interactions During Drought‐To‐Flood Events in the Horn of Africa. Earth’s Future, 10(9) https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002747
  • Schoppa, L., Barendrecht, M., Sieg, T., Sairam, N., & Kreibich, H. (2022). Augmenting a socio-hydrological flood risk model for companies with process-oriented loss estimation. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 67(11), 1623-1639. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2022.2095207
  • Van Loon, A. F., Rangecroft, S., Coxon, G., Werner, M., Wanders, N., Di Baldassarre, G., … & Van Lanen, H. A. (2022). Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management. Environmental Research Letters, 17(4), 044059. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5def/meta
  • Kreibich, H., Van Loon, A. F., Schröter, K., Ward, P. J., Mazzoleni, M., Sairam, N., … & Di Baldassarre, G. (2022). The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management. Nature, 608(7921), 80-86. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04917-5
  • de Ruiter, M. C., & Van Loon, A. F. (2022). The challenges of dynamic vulnerability and how to assess it. IScience, 104720. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222009920

Student projects

2024-2025:

  • Alessia, Marthe Wens and Ignace de Vos will supervise Lars Waterna in collaboration with the Climate Risk group at Rabobank on the MSc thesis: Linking Climate and Hydrological Variables to Financial Losses in the Australian Food & Agricultural Sector
  • Alessia, Raed Hamed and Marina Friedrich will supervise Ties Kamminga on the MSc thesis: Detecting changes in crop sensitivity to extreme dry and hot conditions.

2023-2024:

  • Alessia, Heidi and Anne supervised Senna Pineda (Environment & Resource Management) on a thesis about exploring how serious games can inspire co-creation of community and government responses to droughts and floods in Bajo Belen, Iquitos, Peru.
  • Heidi and Anne supervised Hanna Parker (Environment & Resource Management) on a thesis about how specific extreme droughts and floods in the Peruvian Amazon impact fish species and fishing practices.
  • Alessia, Heidi and Anne supervised students at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru on thesis topics about 1) drought propagation in Rimac Basin, and 2) identifying drought-flood sequences and adaptation plans in Andean Basins. (These are ongoing theses projects and are based in Peru.)
  • Heidi and Anne supervised Stefano Canziani (Global Environmental Change & Policy) on a thesis about the structure of national and local policies on extreme droughts and floods in Iquitos, Peru, and how these can address or create new local vulnerabilities.
  • Ruben and Anne supervised Global Environmental Change & Policy student Roby Hendrix on a thesis about landscape changes under droughts and floods in the Tiva River basin, Kenya.
  • Alessia supervised Climate Econometrics student Ties Kamminga on a thesis about detecting changes in crop sensitivity to extreme dry and hot conditions.
  • Ruben and Marthe supervised student Márton Bedecs on a thesis about landscape changes under droughts and floods in the Tiva River basin, Kenya.

2022-2023:

  • Heidi, Alessia and Anne supervised Senna Pineda (external, Amsterdam University College) on a thesis about drought to flood impacts on the health sector in Bajo Belen, Iquitos, Peru.
  • Heidi and Johanna supervised Kimia Midavoodi (Environment & Resource Management) on a thesis about exploring how governance mechanisms and local policies influenced the 2012 flood impacts and response in Iquitos, Perú.
  • Heidi and Johanna supervised a Molly Cornejo (Global Environmental Change & Policy) on a thesis about identifying gender-based impacts of droughts and how these can be addressed through policy mechanisms in Iquitos, Perú.
  • Tarun Sadana is investigating the 2022 Groundwater Drought in the Netherlands: “How was the 2022 groundwater drought devepment and recovery in the Netherlands dependent on groundwater conditions, meteorological drivers, management measures and what were its impacts on vegetation?”
  • Ruben and Johanna supervised  Environment & Resource Management students Marijke van Benschop and Julia Heester with their theses about the role of agroforestry in managing drought and flood impacts in the Tiva River basin in Kitui County, Kenya.
  • Marlies supervised and Alessia was the reader of Lucas Kehus (external, Amsterdam University College) Capstone thesis about: How does Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Water Abstraction Contribute to local droughts in the Owens River Valley.
  • Alessia, Marlies and Marina Friedrich supervised Elisabeth A. C. De Ploey on her MSc thesis about: The dependency of flood hazards on previous drought events.
  • Alessia, Timothy Tiggeloven and Marina Friedrich supervised Jasper D. Liem on the MSc thesis about: Cascading events of drought in Germany: an econometric approach.
  • Alessia and Timothy Tiggeloven supervised Jasmijn Golyardi on the MSc thesis about: The Impact of Hydrological Extremes on WASH in Conflict-Affected Areas in Lebanon.

2021-2022:

  • Alessia and Timothy Tiggeloven supervised Sascha Sylbing (external, Amsterdam University College) Capstone thesis about: Caveats through the canopy: a political-ecological descriptive analysis of the construction of disaster risk in post-peace agreement Colombia.
  • Alessia, Anne and Adriaan J. Teuling supervised Marleen Lam (external, Wageningen University) on the MSc thesis: The relation between drought impacts, drought indicators, water scarcity and aridity: the case of Kenya (paper published here:  https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/23/2915/2023/)

Funding

PerfectSTORM has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number ERC-2020-StG 948601

Contact

Instituut voor Milieuvraagstukken (IVM) /

Institute for Environmental Studies

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam

The Netherlands