DrWouterBuytaert

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Reader in Hydrology and Water Resources

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 1329w.buytaert Website

Assistant

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

Location

403ASkempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Wouter Buytaert is a reader in hydrology and water resources in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an expert on the impact of environmental change on the water cycle and its consequences for water supply and flood and drought risk. His work ranges from hydrological process understanding, to computer simulation, decision-support, the science policy interface, and sustainable development. He is working extensively in tropical and subtropical areas, with a particular interest in the Andes and the Himalayas. His work is funded by a large variety of sources, including but not limited to the UK Research Councils, UK DFID, the European Commission, the European Institute of Technology, UNESCO, Interamerican Development Bank, World Bank, the Belgian Development Cooperation, companies and private donors.

Wouter is also a fellow of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, UK and a member of the NERC peer review college. He is Editor of the EGU journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Associate Editor of Computers & Geosciences and Frontiers in Earth Science. He receives frequent invitations to speak in international conferences and meetings, both in an academic and a policy context.

Wouter graduated with an Meng/MSc in Environmental Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 2000 and obtained a PhD from the same university in 2004. He joined Imperial College in 2009 after positions at Lancaster University and the University of Bristol.

More information on research projects can be found on the group website.

Publications

Journals

Dewulf A, Karpouzoglou T, Warner J, et al.Dewulf A, Karpouzoglou T, Warner J, Wesselink A, Mao F, Vos J, Tamas P, Groot AE, Heijmans A, Ahmed F, Hoang L, Vij S, Buytaert W close, 2019, The power to define resilience in social-hydrological systems: Toward a power-sensitive resilience framework, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-water, ISSN:2049-1948

Charani E, Cunnington AJ, Yousif AHA, et al.Charani E, Cunnington AJ, Yousif AHA, Ahmed MS, Ahmed AEM, Babiker S, Bedri S, Buytaert W, Crawford MA, Elbashir MI, Elhag K, Elsiddig KE, Hakim N, Johnson MR, Miras AD, Swar MO, Templeton MR, Taylor-Robinson SD close, 2019, In transition: current health challenges and priorities in Sudan, Bmj Global Health, Vol:4:e001723, ISSN:2059-7908

Bloeschl G, Bierkens MFP, Chambel A, et al.Bloeschl G, Bierkens MFP, Chambel A, Cudennec C, Destouni G, Fiori A, Kirchner JW, McDonnell JJ, Savenije HHG, Sivapalan M, Stumpp C, Toth E, Volpi E, Carr G, Lupton C, Salinas J, Szeles B, Viglione A, Aksoy H, Allen ST, Amin A, Andreassian V, Arheimer B, Aryal SK, Baker V, Bardsley E, Barendrecht MH, Bartosova A, Batelaan O, Berghuijs WR, Beven K, Blume T, Bogaard T, de Amorim PB, Boettcher ME, Boulet G, Breinl K, Brilly M, Brocca L, Buytaert W, Castellarin A, Castelletti A, Chen X, Chen Y, Chen Y, Chifflard P, Claps P, Clark MP, Collins AL, Croke B, Dathe A, David PC, de Barros FPJ, de Rooij G, Di Baldassarre G, Driscoll JM, Duethmann D, Dwivedi R, Eris E, Farmer WH, Feiccabrino J, Ferguson G, Ferrari E, Ferraris S, Fersch B, Finger D, Foglia L, Fowler K, Gartsman B, Gascoin S, Gaume E, Gelfan A, Geris J, Gharari S, Gleeson T, Glendell M, Bevacqua AG, Gonzalez-Dugo MP, Grimaldi S, Gupta AB, Guse B, Han D, Hannah D, Harpold A, Haun S, Heal K, Helfricht K, Herrnegger M, Hipsey M, Hlavacikova H, Hohmann C, Holko L, Hopkinson C, Hrachowitz M, Illangasekare TH, Inam A, Innocente C, Istanbulluoglu E, Jarihani B, Kalantari Z, Kalvans A, Khanal S, Khatami S, Kiesel J, Kirkby M, Knoben W, Kochanek K, Kohnova S, Kolechkina A, Krause S, Kreamer D, Kreibich H, Kunstmann H, Lange H, Liberato MLR, Lindquist E, Link T, Liu J, Loucks DP, Luce C, Mahe G, Makarieva O, Malard J, Mashtayeva S, Maskey S, Mas-Pla J, Mavrova-Guirguinova M, Mazzoleni M, Mernild S, Misstear BD, Montanari A, Mueller-Thomy H, Nabizadeh A, Nardi F, Neale C, Nesterova N, Nurtaev B, Odongo VO, Panda S, Pande S, Pang Z, Papacharalampous G, Perrin C, Pfister L, Pimentel R, Polo MJ, Post D, Sierra CP, Ramos M-H, Renner M, Reynolds JE, Ridolfi E, Rigon R, Riva M, Robertson DE, Rosso R, Roy T, Sa JHM, Salvadori G, Sandells M, Schaefli B, Schumann A, Scolobig A, Seibert J, Servat E, Shafiei M, Sharma A, Sidibe M, Sidle RC, Skaugen T, Smith H, Spiessl SM, Stein L, Steinsland I, Strasser U, Su B, Szolgay J, Tarboton D close, 2019, Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) - a community perspective, Hydrological Sciences Journal-journal Des Sciences Hydrologiques, Vol:64, ISSN:0262-6667, Pages:1141-1158

Ochoa-Tocachi BF, Bardales JD, Antiporta J, et al.Ochoa-Tocachi BF, Bardales JD, Antiporta J, Pérez K, Acosta L, Mao F, Zulkafli Z, Gil-Ríos J, Angulo O, Grainger S, Gammie G, De Bièvre B, Buytaert W close, 2019, Potential contributions of pre-Inca infiltration infrastructure to Andean water security, Nature Sustainability, Vol:2, ISSN:2398-9629, Pages:584-593

Uprety M, Ochoa-Tocachi BF, Paul JD, et al.Uprety M, Ochoa-Tocachi BF, Paul JD, Regmi S, Buytaert W close, 2019, Improving water resources management using participatory monitoring in a remote mountainous region of Nepal, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, Vol:23, ISSN:2214-5818

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