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dr.ir. J.F. Schyns (Joep)

About Me

Freshwater is a renewable resource, but its availability is limited in time and space. It is also a global resource, since water is used to produce goods that are traded internationally.

Schyns' research and teaching activities focus on the management of freshwater resources with a multidisciplinary perspective. This involves assessing the water footprint of human consumption and production patterns to inform coherent policies on water, agriculture, energy and trade.

As coordinator of the water footprint statistics and publication databases for the Water Footprint Network, Schyns is involved with knowledge dissemination to the general public and the network partners, which include businesses, NGOs, governments, and academia.

Expertise

Earth & Environmental Sciences
Food
River Basin
Water
Water Availability
Water Footprint
Water Resource
Water Scarcity
Agriculture & Biology
Water Footprint

Publications

Recent
Cazcarro, I. , Schyns, J. F., Arto, I., & Sanz, M. J. (2022). Nations’ water footprints and virtual water trade of wood products. Advances in water resources, 164, [104188]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104188
Schyns, J. F. , Hogeboom, R. J. , & Krol, M. S. (2022). Water Footprint Assessment: towards water-wise food systems. In C. J. Peters, & D. D. Thilmany (Eds.), Food Systems Modelling: Tools for Assessing Sustainability in Food and Agriculture (pp. 63-87). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822112-9.00006-0
Jägermeyr, J., Müller, C., Ruane, A. C., Elliott, J., Balkovic, J., Castillo, O., Faye, B., Foster, I., Folberth, C., Franke, J. A., Fuchs, K., Guarin, J. R., Heinke, J., Hoogenboom, G., Iizumi, T., Jain, A. K., Kelly, D., Khabarov, N., Lange, S., ... Rosenzweig, C. (2021). Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models. Nature Food, 2(11), 873-885. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00400-y
Matthews, K. B., Renner, A., Blackstock, K. L., Waylen, K. A., Miller, D. G., Wardell-Johnson, D. H., Juarez-Bourke, A., Cadillo-Benalcazar, J. , Schyns, J. F., & Giampietro, M. (2021). Old Wine in New Bottles: Exploiting Data from the EU’s Farm Accountancy Data Network for Pan-EU Sustainability Assessments of Agricultural Production Systems. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(18). https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810080
Matthews, K. B., Blackstock, K. L., Waylen, K. A., Juarez-Bourke, A., Miller, D. G., Wardell-Johnson, D. H., Rivington, M., Hague, A., Fisher, D., Cadillo-Benalcazar, J. , Schyns, J. F., & Giampietro, M. (2020). Report on EU sustainability goals: insights from Quantitative Story Telling and the WEFE nexus. MAGIC (H2020–GA 689669) Project Deliverable 5.1. https://magic-nexus.eu/documents/deliverable-51-report-eu-sustainability-goals
Schyns, J. F., Oprel, J. , Holmatov, B. , Krol, M. S., & Verburg, C. (2020). Collaborative Gaming to Explore the Water-Land-Carbon-Food-Energy Nexus Challenges in the EU. Abstract from 10th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, iEMSs 2020, Brussels, Belgium.
Vanham, D., Medarac, H. , Schyns, J. F. , Hogeboom, R. J., & Magagna, D. (2019). The consumptive water footprint of the European Union energy sector. Environmental research letters, 14(10), 104016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab374a

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Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands