Research output per year
Research output per year
Room 8A-01, NU-building
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), De Boelelaan 1111
1081 HV Amsterdam
Marthe Wens is an Assistant Professor in the Water and Climate Risk group. Her research concerns water security and societal impacts, with a specific focus on simulating the intertwined nature of drought risk and human adaptive behaviour. Most of her work focuses on Europe or Africa, and on agricultural droughts, but recently her work is broader and includes drought impacts on other sectors (e.g. ecosystems) and aspects of society (e.g. children, migration). She investigates the use of agent-based modelling and machine learning tools to create global, national, and local drought profiles to support disaster risk reduction efforts and is working on a project to enable the co-creation of green adaptation pathways to mitigate drought and flood risk.
She is a climate activist, nature-lover and enjoys working on climate resilience projects together with partner institutes from the Global South.
2016: Master of Science in Geography, Major Earth & Climate studies,
Minor: GIS and Spatial Modelling
(KU Leuven and VUB Brussels, Belgium)
Wens, M. (2016). Cost-benefit evaluation of soil and water conservation techniques in Tigray.
MSc thesis including 3 months fieldwork executing Choice Experiment and SWC surveys on field
Marthe is developing a socio-hydrologic agent-based model to simulate how the intertwined human-nature might evolve under given governance (i.e. socioeconomic situation), culture (i.e. farmers’ risk perception) and infrastructure (i.e. access to index-based insurance products), while explicitly including the emergent decision behaviour of stakeholders (i.e. of smallholder farmers). By modelling water security and food production as the outcome of a coupled human-natural system that accounts for human adaptability to external drivers, predictions about the impact of future droughts on agriculture can be improved. Besides, the model will be able to evaluate viable drought risk mitigation solutions that address short-term and long-term water scarcity challenges hence can serve as a support tool for the development of strategic drought risk management.
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
2016 – Jan 2017: Monitoring and Evaluation Intern International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Amman, Jordan.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Geography; Major Earth & Climate studies, Minor: GIS and Spatial Modelling, Master, Cost-benefit evaluation of soil and water conservation techniques in Tigray. M.Sc. thesis including 3 months fieldwork executing Choice Experiment and SWC surveys on field, KU Leuven
Award Date: 30 Jun 2016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
Schaafsma, M. (Project Researcher) & Wens, M. (Project Researcher)
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
Schaafsma, M. (Project Researcher), van Loon, A. (Project Researcher), Muller, L. (Project Researcher), Mazzoleni, M. (Project Researcher) & Wens, M. (Project Researcher)
1/11/21 → 31/10/25
Project: Research
de Moel, H. (Principal Investigator), Wens, M. (Project Researcher) & Grudnowska, A. (Project Researcher)
22/12/21 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
de Ruiter, M. (Principal Investigator), Koetse, M. (Project Researcher), Ebrey, R. (Project Researcher), Botzen, W. (Project Researcher), de Ruiter, M. (Project Researcher) & Wens, M. (Project Researcher)
10/09/19 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
van Veen, N. (Project Researcher), Haer, T. (Principal Investigator), de Moel, H. (Project Researcher), van der Grijp, N. (Project Researcher), Petrovics, D. (Project Researcher), Wens, M. (Project Researcher), Busker, T. (Project Researcher) & Tierolf, L. (Project Researcher)
1/01/19 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
Verdonk, P. (Participant), Schaumburg, J. (Participant), Kaupa, C. (Participant), Debonne, N. (Participant), Doci, E. (Participant), Lemaire, K. (Participant), Maas, I. (Participant), Wens, M. (Participant), Ossebaard, H. (Participant), Leggett, J. (Participant), Verburg, P. H. (Participant), Pattberg, P. (Participant), Holland, M. (Participant), Iannuzzi, D. (Participant), Klaassen, P. (Participant), Kort, R. (Participant) & Blondeel, M. (Participant)
Activity: Other
Wens, M. (Creator) & de Moel, H. (Creator), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2019
http://riskprofilesundrr.org/riskprofiles/guidelines.html
Dataset / Software: Dataset