Marleen de Ruiter

Marleen de Ruiter is a PhD at the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has a background in Environmental and Resource Management from the University of British Columbia (Canada) specializing in disaster vulnerability and post-disaster recovery. 

In her current research, she focuses on improving modelling capabilities of multi-hazard risk and measuring the impacts of adaptation measures on Disaster Risk Reduction. In recent decades, there has been a striking number of countries suffering from consecutive disasters: different events impacting the same area within days, months or years from each other, when recovery from an earlier event is still under way. Current state-of-the art regional and global models do not allow for a thorough representation and analysis of consecutive events and their impacts. Moreover, adaptation measures are generally aimed at one particular hazard type although they can have opposing effects on a different hazard type.

In addressing these challenges, her projects include:

• Developing consecutive event models at a global and local scale.
• Improving understanding of (potentially opposing) effects of adaptation measures on Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Improving multi-hazard risk modelling in a case study of the Philippines, in collaboration with the Red Cross' 510 Global Team.  

Finally, Marleen is coordinator of the Global Environmental Change & Policy specialization of the Earth Sciences master at the VU University.

Expertise

Post-disaster recovery, risk and vulnerability assessments, flood vulnerability curves, extreme weather inusrance schemes, multi-hazard risk, consecutive events.

2011: MSc Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada.

2009: BSc Earth and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

2006: Propedeutics Econometrics and Operational Research Management, University of Amsterdam.

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