dr. M.S. Krol (Maarten)

Maarten Krol is an associate professor in integrated water modelling, with Ius Promovendi. He holds a MSc and PhD in mathematical physics from Utrecht University, and has worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, Potsdam, Germany) and the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil). He joined the University of Twente in 2003 and since contributed to research and education of Civil Engineering and Management.

Water management is about matching natural physical processes and societal aspiration that go along with claims on water systems. From his background in integrated assessment modelling and mathematical physics, Krol is interested in using simulation approaches and scenario analysis to gain insights in this match. At RIVM, he was main modeller in the IMAGE project on global and climate change, resulting in much-cited publications, contributions to IPCC reports and policy reports supporting Dutch representatives in climate negotiations. At PIK and UFC, he was principal investigator in a large bilateral German-Brazilian programme on drought in Northeastern Brazil in the context of climate change, editor of a book on the programme and contributing to policy advice to the State Government of Ceará on drought management. At UT he was principal investigator in, among others, European projects on water savings in irrigation and on the water-land-energy-food nexus in EU policies.

Expertise

• Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Water
  • Model
  • Water Footprint
  • Investigation
  • River Basin
  • Land
  • Assessment
  • Structural Basin

Organisations

Main research interests lie in

• understanding the mutual relations between water availability and water use,
• assessing the role of interventions on this relation, specifically the role of reservoirs and their management and spatial allocation and characteristics of irrigation,
• climate change impacts,
• model-technical aspects of uncertainty assessment and the role of uncertainty in policy analysis

Publications

Other contributions

Key publications

Chukalla, A.D., M.S. Krol, and A.Y. Hoekstra (2015). Green and blue water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: effect of irrigation techniques, irrigation strategies and mulching. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 19, p.4877-4891.

Krol, M.S., M.J. de Vries, P.R. van Oel, and J.C. de Araújo (2011). Sustainability of small reservoirs and large scale water availability under current conditions and climate change. Water Resources Management  25, p. 3017-3026.

Warmink, J.J., J.A.E.B. Janssen, M.J. Booij, and M.S. Krol (2010). Identification and classification of uncertainties in the application of environmental models. Environmental Modelling & Software25, p. 1518-1527.

Oel, P.R. van, M.S. Krol, and A.Y. Hoekstra (2009). A river basin as a common-pool resource: a case study for the Jaguaribe basin in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. Journal of River Basin Management 7(4), p. 345-353.

Oel, P.R. van, Krol, M.S., Hoekstra, A.Y., and Araújo, J.C. de (2008). The impact of upstream water abstractions on reservoir yield: the case of the Orós Reservoir in Brazil. Hydrological sciences journal 53(4), p. 857-867.

Krol, M.S. and A. Bronstert (2007). Regional integrated modelling of climate change impacts on natural resources and resource usage in semi-arid Northeast Brazil. Environmental Modelling & Software 22, p. 259-268.

Krol, M.S, A. Jaeger, A. Bronstert and A. Güntner (2006). Integrated modelling of climate, water, soil, agricultural and socio-economic processes: a general introduction of the methodology and some exemplary results from the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. Journal of Hydrology 328, p.417-431.

Krol, M.S., J. Alcamo, and R. Leemans (1997). Global and regional impacts of stabilizing atmospheric CO2, Mitigation and Adaption Strategies for Global Change 1, p. 341–361.

Books

Unruh, J., M.S. Krol and N. Kliot (Eds.). (2004). Environmental Change and its implications for population migration. Advances in Global Change Research vol 20. Springer. ISBN: 1-4020-2868-7, 315 p.

Gaiser, T., M.S. Krol, H. Frischkorn and J.C. de Araújo (Eds.). (2003). Global Change and Regional Impacts: Water Availability and Vulnerability of Eco-systems and Society in the semiarid Northeast of Brazil. Berlin: Springer. ISBN: 3-540-43824-6, 428p.

Krol, M.S. (1990). The method of averaging in partial differential equations. PhD-thesis, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Research profiles

Teaching

In the BSc Civil Engineering:

• Flood safety and risk in deltas, coordinator of this 2nd year's module (Module 5) and teacher / supervisor of the project with focus on integrated modelling,
• Evaluation of water aspects in spatial planning, in the 2nd year's module Area development,
• Evaluation of simulation models, in the 3rd year's module Preparation BSc project.

In the MSc Civil Engineering and Management:

• Water and climate: reservoirs in drought management and optimization.

In the BSc Honours track Shaping the future:

• Flood safety in the Netherlands.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Over the last years, I have been involved in integrated projects studying

• sustainability aspects of water and land resource use in food and energy consumption in the Earth@lternatives project (ERC-AG) led by Arjen Hoekstra
• the water-land-energy-food nexus linked to EU policies (Horizon2020 project MAGIC)
• water-saving potentials of precise irrigation (FP7 project FIGARO)

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W200
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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