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

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.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Food
# River Basin
# Water
# Water Availability
# Water Footprint
# Water Resource
# Water Scarcity

Agriculture & Biology

# Water Footprint

Aldaya, M. M., Sesma-Martín, D. , & Schyns, J. F. (2022). Advances and Challenges in the Water Footprint Assessment Research Field: Towards a More Integrated Understanding of the Water–Energy–Food–Land Nexus in a Changing Climate. Water (Switzerland), 14(9), [1488]. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14091488

Karandish, F. , Nouri, H. , & Schyns, J. F. (2022). Agricultural Adaptation to Reconcile Food Security and Water Sustainability Under Climate Change: The Case of Cereals in Iran. Earth's Future, 10(9), [e2021EF002095]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002095

Ye, Q. (2022). Enhanced Input-Output Modelling for Improved Assessment of Supply Chain-Wide Environmental Pressures in Space and Time: The Case of China. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554305

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., Albers, L. , & Booij, M. (2022). Translating blue water footprint caps for a river basin to caps per sub-catchment: trade-offs between upstream-downstream uses and the environment. EGU22-9224. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9224

Mialyk, O. , Schyns, J. F. , & Booij, M. J. (2022). Historical simulation of crop water and land footprints. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2022

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

Ye, Q. , Wang, R. , Schyns, J. F. , Zhuo, L., Yang, L. , & Krol, M. S. (2022). Effects of production fragmentation and inter-provincial trade on spatial blue water consumption and scarcity patterns in China. Journal of cleaner production, 334, [130186]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.130186

Ye, Q., Bruckner, M. , Wang, R. , Schyns, J. F., Zhuo, L., Yang, L., Su, H. , & Krol, M. S. (2022). A hybrid multi-regional input-output model of China: Integrating the physical agricultural biomass and food system into the monetary supply chain. Resources, conservation and recycling, 177, [105981]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105981

Mialyk, O. , Schyns, J. F. , Booij, M. J. , & Hogeboom, R. J. (2022). Historical simulation of maize water footprints with a new global gridded crop model ACEA. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 26(4), 923-940. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-923-2022

Krol, M. S. , Booij, M. J. , Hogeboom, R. J., Karandish, F. , Schyns, J. F. , & Wang, R. (2021). Arjen Y. Hoekstra: A Water Management Researcher to Be Remembered. Water, 14(1), 50. [50]. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010050

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

Albers, L. T. , Schyns, J. F. , Booij, M. J., & Zhuo, L. (2021). Blue water footprint caps per sub-catchment to mitigate water scarcity in a large river basin: The case of the Yellow River in China. Journal of hydrology, 603(Part C), 126992. [126992]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126992

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

Holmatov, B. , Schyns, J. F. , Krol, M. S. , Gerbens-Leenes, P. W. , & Hoekstra, A. Y. (2021). Can crop residues provide fuel for future transport? Limited global residue bioethanol potentials and large associated land, water and carbon footprints. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 149, [111417]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111417

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

Vargas Farias, A. , Hogeboom, R. , Schyns, J. F., Verburg, C. , & Hoekstra, A. Y. (2020). Quality Check of Saving Water in Irrigation. MAGIC (H2020–GA 689669) Project Deliverable 6.8. https://magic-nexus.eu/documents/deliverable-d68-quality-check-saving-water-irrigation

Schyns, J. F., Oprel, J. , Holmatov, B., Verburg, C. , Krol, M. S. , & Hoekstra, A. Y. (2020). Educational Nexus Game. MAGIC (H2020–GA 689669) Project Deliverable 7.5. https://magic-nexus.eu/documents/deliverable-75-educational-nexus-game

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.

Schyns, J. F. (2020). Wir kaufen wasser: Wo es was bringt, Wasser zu sparen. Biorama, 68.

Schyns, J. F. , & Hogeboom, R. (2020). Dweilen met de kraan open: de grote droogte van 2020: We zullen pas wakker worden als er deze zomer géén water meer uit de kraan stroomt. Humo, (4161), 22-25.

Hogeboom, RJ., de Bruin, D. , Schyns, J. F. , Krol, MS. , & Hoekstra, A. Y. (2020). Capping Human Water Footprints in the World's River Basins. Earth's Future, 8(2), [e2019EF001363]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001363

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

Schyns, J. F. , Hoekstra, A. Y. , Hogeboom, R. J. , & Booij, M. J. (2019). Reply to van Noordwijk and Ellison: Moisture recycling: Key to assess hydrological impacts of land cover changes, but not to quantify water allocation to competing demands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(17), 8104-8104. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903789116

Schyns, J. F. , Hoekstra, A. Y. , Booij, M. J. , Hogeboom, R. J. , & Mekonnen, M. M. (2019). Limits to the world’s green water resources for food, feed, fiber, timber, and bioenergy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(11), 4893-4898. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817380116

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Civil Engineering

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Civil Engineering and Management

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