Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

Water resources and human activities are tightly coupled: water determines where people live and what they do and, conversely, humans strongly influence the distribution of water in time and space.
We use a variety of tools from the environmental, social and data sciences (see below) to study these interactions from a theoretical and empirical angle.
We are particularly interested in the implications of human-water interactions on food, water and environmental security, especially in situations where data is challenging to collect due to remoteness, armed conflicts or political, strategic or sovereignty concerns.