Lieke Melsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2925201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lieke Melsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Melsen |
| SIGNATURE | MELSEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0062-1301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The role of decision support tools in drought management
Droughts have an increasing impact on the entire European continent. As the frequency and intensity of droughts rise in many parts of Europe, the implementation of effective drought adaptation and mitigation strategies becomes increasingly important. However, it is not known how diverse tools are used in drought management with increasing drought severity. This study explores the role of Decision Support Tools (DSTs) in strategic and operational …
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction
Digital replicas (or twins) of the entire planet and of its inhabitants are being actively proposed by the research community for a variety of purposes, with a focus on climate adaptation and mitigation. Since mathematical modelling is at the core of this digital enterprise, we undertake to explore the possible limits of models in creating twins of the Earth by recalling some of the existing visions about the nature and function of mathematical m…
River co-learning arenas
This paper develops the methodological concept of river co-learning arenas (RCAs) and explores their potential to strengthen innovative grassroots river initiatives, enliven river commons, regenerate river ecologies, and foster greater socio-ecological justice. The integrity of river systems has been threatened in profound ways over the last century. Pollution, damming, canalisation, and water grabbing are some examples of pressures threatening t…
The synchronization of hydrotemporalities in fishing territories
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia
Futures are not neutral. Imagining certain futures over others is deeply political and rooted in specific imaginaries. We address this issue by scrutinizing dominant future-making processes in riverine adaptation and elucidate power structures that shape such processes. We describe what future-making processes ground the implementation of adaptation projects, what knowledge strategies are used to (attempt to) ensure certain futures, and what know…
Towards a critical understanding of digital twins
Digital twin technologies play an increasingly important role in addressing predictive management and real-time decision-making for environmental challenges, with the potential to significantly transform river governance. By examining Digital Twin Yangtze, this paper critically analyzes how the Chinese state strategically positions digital twin technologies for governing rivers and for reinforcing authority over water, people, and territory. Inqu…
It's not all about drought
Drought impacts monitoring has been called the missing piece in drought assessment. The potential to improve drought management is high but uncertain due to rare analyses of impacts datasets, predominantly because there are few impacts monitoring programmes to generate the datasets. Drought impacts monitoring is conducted on the ground in much of Brazil by local observers at monthly and municipality scale to support the Brazilian Drought Monitor.…
Bring digital twins back to Earth
We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of complexity and uncertainty, and does not engage with critical and interpretative social sciences. We contest the utility of digital twins for addressing climate change issues and discuss societal risks associated with the co…
Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems
This study applies ‘Social-Ecological Systems (SES)’ concepts with the aim of analysing why and how events happening across spatial, jurisdictional, and temporal scales influence droughts and their impacts in rural communities. To trace the evolution of droughts and their impacts on the livelihood system, we conducted a drought diagnosis in the rural community of Riacho da Cruz in the Banabuiú basin in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. We analys…
Bring digital twins back to Earth
We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of complexity and uncertainty, and does not engage with critical and interpretative social sciences. We contest the utility of digital twins for addressing climate change issues and discuss societal risks associated with the co…
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction
Digital replicas (or twins) of the entire planet and of its inhabitants are being actively proposed by the research community for a variety of purposes, with a focus on climate adaptation and mitigation. Since mathematical modelling is at the core of this digital enterprise, we undertake to explore the possible limits of models in creating twins of the Earth by recalling some of the existing visions about the nature and function of mathematical m…
River co-learning arenas
This paper develops the methodological concept of river co-learning arenas (RCAs) and explores their potential to strengthen innovative grassroots river initiatives, enliven river commons, regenerate river ecologies, and foster greater socio-ecological justice. The integrity of river systems has been threatened in profound ways over the last century. Pollution, damming, canalisation, and water grabbing are some examples of pressures threatening t…
The synchronization of hydrotemporalities in fishing territories
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia
Futures are not neutral. Imagining certain futures over others is deeply political and rooted in specific imaginaries. We address this issue by scrutinizing dominant future-making processes in riverine adaptation and elucidate power structures that shape such processes. We describe what future-making processes ground the implementation of adaptation projects, what knowledge strategies are used to (attempt to) ensure certain futures, and what know…
Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems
This study applies ‘Social-Ecological Systems (SES)’ concepts with the aim of analysing why and how events happening across spatial, jurisdictional, and temporal scales influence droughts and their impacts in rural communities. To trace the evolution of droughts and their impacts on the livelihood system, we conducted a drought diagnosis in the rural community of Riacho da Cruz in the Banabuiú basin in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. We analys…
It's not all about drought
Drought impacts monitoring has been called the missing piece in drought assessment. The potential to improve drought management is high but uncertain due to rare analyses of impacts datasets, predominantly because there are few impacts monitoring programmes to generate the datasets. Drought impacts monitoring is conducted on the ground in much of Brazil by local observers at monthly and municipality scale to support the Brazilian Drought Monitor.…
Bring digital twins back to Earth
We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of complexity and uncertainty, and does not engage with critical and interpretative social sciences. We contest the utility of digital twins for addressing climate change issues and discuss societal risks associated with the co…
The role of decision support tools in drought management
Droughts have an increasing impact on the entire European continent. As the frequency and intensity of droughts rise in many parts of Europe, the implementation of effective drought adaptation and mitigation strategies becomes increasingly important. However, it is not known how diverse tools are used in drought management with increasing drought severity. This study explores the role of Decision Support Tools (DSTs) in strategic and operational …
Digital Twins of the Earth Between Vision and Fiction
Digital replicas (or twins) of the entire planet and of its inhabitants are being actively proposed by the research community for a variety of purposes, with a focus on climate adaptation and mitigation. Since mathematical modelling is at the core of this digital enterprise, we undertake to explore the possible limits of models in creating twins of the Earth by recalling some of the existing visions about the nature and function of mathematical m…
River co-learning arenas
This paper develops the methodological concept of river co-learning arenas (RCAs) and explores their potential to strengthen innovative grassroots river initiatives, enliven river commons, regenerate river ecologies, and foster greater socio-ecological justice. The integrity of river systems has been threatened in profound ways over the last century. Pollution, damming, canalisation, and water grabbing are some examples of pressures threatening t…
The synchronization of hydrotemporalities in fishing territories
Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia
Futures are not neutral. Imagining certain futures over others is deeply political and rooted in specific imaginaries. We address this issue by scrutinizing dominant future-making processes in riverine adaptation and elucidate power structures that shape such processes. We describe what future-making processes ground the implementation of adaptation projects, what knowledge strategies are used to (attempt to) ensure certain futures, and what know…
Towards a critical understanding of digital twins
Digital twin technologies play an increasingly important role in addressing predictive management and real-time decision-making for environmental challenges, with the potential to significantly transform river governance. By examining Digital Twin Yangtze, this paper critically analyzes how the Chinese state strategically positions digital twin technologies for governing rivers and for reinforcing authority over water, people, and territory. Inqu…
Political science (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)