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
Straatsma M, Droogers P, Hunink J, et al., 2020, Global to regional scale evaluation of adaptation measures to reduce the future water gap, Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol:124, ISSN:1364-8152
Cuesta F, Tovar C, Llambi LD, et al., 2019, Thermal niche traits of high alpine plant species and communities across the tropical Andes and their vulnerability to global warming, Journal of Biogeography, ISSN:0305-0270
Agrawal S, Chakraborty A, Karmakar N, et al., 2019, Effects of winter and summer-time irrigation over Gangetic Plain on the mean and intra-seasonal variability of Indian summer monsoon (vol 53, pg 3147, 2019), Climate Dynamics, Vol:53, ISSN:0930-7575, Pages:6519-6519
Dewulf A, Karpouzoglou T, Warner J, et al., 2019, The power to define resilience in social-hydrological systems: Toward a power-sensitive resilience framework, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-water, Vol:6, ISSN:2049-1948
Agrawal S, Chakraborty A, Karmakar N, et al., 2019, Effects of winter and summer-time irrigation over Gangetic Plain on the mean and intra-seasonal variability of Indian summer monsoon, Climate Dynamics, Vol:53, ISSN:0930-7575, Pages:3147-3166