Publications

Newspaper articles and essays

2026

• Essay in The Bangkok Post, Thailand Bangkok floods put investment at great risk (Link to the Bangkok Post Article)

• Essay iin The Bangkok Post, Thailand The city that rehearsed calamity (Link to the Bangkok Post Article) 

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: A Ruling Without Consequence: Rethinking Enforcement In The Indus Waters Treaty

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: The Wrong Address: What Nepal’s Floods Should Teach Pakistan About Risk

• Chapter in Report Revive Earth: Pakistan at the Flood Tipping Point

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: Why Pakistan Keeps Flooding — And What We Keep Getting Wrong

• Essay in The Daily Star, Bangladesh: The Bangladesh delta plan: Between certainty and reality

• Essay in The Daily Star, Bangladesh: Crossing the river in Dhaka: The last hundred meters

• Essay in H2O, The Netherlands: Schrijf mee aan een patroontaal voor de watersector

2025

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: Sindh’s 2022 Floods Reveal Failing Irrigation Systems And Urgent Need For Reform

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: The Real Lessons Of Pakistan’s 2025 Floods

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: Pakistan’s Flood Warnings: From Crying Wolf To Building Real Resilience

• Essay in The Friday Times, Pakistan: From Fixed Shares To Flexible Futures: Rethinking India-Pakistan Water Diplomacy

2024

• Article: Bridging Perspectives: Lessons from the Water Custodian approach, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17963

2020

• Article in The Daily Star, Bangladesh: Bangladesh and water: A complicated relationship

My substack writings

2026

• Substack: The Recognition Is in the Room. The Language Is Not.

• Substack: Only a Hammer

• Substack: The Slow Decline of Engineered Landscapes

• Substack: Why We Keep Failing in the Same Ways

• Substack: The Honest and False Promises of Climate-Smart Irrigation

Scientific and professional publications

2025

• Report: The floods of 2022: An analysis of 35 years of ERA5 rainfall data for Sindh Pakistan

2024

• Article: Bridging Perspectives: Lessons from the Water Custodian approach, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17963

2023

• Article: The Pakistan Floods of 2022. A pledge for system thinking in water management

2020

• Article: Bangladesh and water: A complicated relationship

2018

• Report: Ondergrond in zicht: Inspiraties voor verbinding van onder- en bovengrond in Maastricht

2017

• Report: Bangladesh MetaModel Volume I

• Report: Restoration of the marshes in the Middle Mountains of the Rhine basin for flood and drought risk reduction 'the sponges approach'

2016

• Report: Extending current models of surface water flow to include explicit recognition of depressions and of connectivity between depressions

2014

• Article: Fit for purpose? Building and evaluating a fast, integrated model for exploring water policy pathways

2013

• Report: Mogelijkheden voor bergen? Bergen van mogelijkheden!

2012

• Article: An Integrated Assessment Metamodel for Exploring Adaptation Pathways for water management in the Lower Rhine Delta

• Article: Nitrogen Source Apportionment for the Catchment, Estuary, and Adjacent Coastal Waters of the River Scheldt

2011

• Article: Ontsluiting van bodemdata: De ruimtelijke ordening staat met lege handen! 

2010

• Article: Exploring pathways for sustainable water management in river deltas in a changing environment

• Article: Duurzame Delta: een serieus spel over waterbeheer

2004

• Report: Perspectives on flood management in the Rhine and Meuse basins 

• Report: Executive Summary: Development of flood management strategies for the Rhine and Meuse basins in the context of integrated river management

2003

• Article: Assessing future discharge of the river Rhine using regional climate model integrations and a hydrological model

• Article: Wie is verantwoordelijk voor onze droge voeten?

2002

• Article: Klimaatverandering en laagwater op de Maas

2000

• Article: How do we gain control over GIS technology?

• Report: Humans, water and climate change: why worry about climate and water

• Article: Monitoring Trends in Urban Growth and Surveying City Quarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Using SPOT-XS

• Article: Physically-based River Basin Modelling Within a GIS: The LISFLOOD Model

1999

• Article: De ontwikkeling van OntwerpGIS

1995

• PhD thesis: Geographical Information Systems and Dynamic Models

1993

• Article: RHINEFLOW: An integrated GIS water balance model for the river Rhine