Hester Biemans

Biographic Data

ID	5773051
NAME	Hester Biemans
GIVEN NAMES	Hester
FAMILY NAME	Biemans
SIGNATURE	BIEMANS H
AFFILIATIONS	Wageningen University & Research
ORCID	0000-0001-8750-2553
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	21
TOTAL CITATIONS	42
WORKS AS AUTHOR	21
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	4

Contextualising seasonal forecasts to accelerate their uptake for agricultural decision-making
Open AccessIgnacio Saldivia Gonzatti, Wouter J Smolenaars et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025
Exploring the potential of agricultural system change as an integrated adaptation strategy for water and food security in the Indus basin
Open AccessWouter J Smolenaars, Muhammad Jamil et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2023
Water security and food security in the Indus basin are highly interlinked and subject to severe stresses. Irrigation water demands presently already exceed what the basin can sustainably provide, but per-capita food availability remains limited. Rapid population growth and climate change are projected to further intensify pressure on the interdependencies between water and food security. The agricultural system of the Indus basin must therefore …
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater
Open AccessArthur Lutz, Walter W Immerzeel et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022
Projecting changes in the water sources used for irrigation in South Asia
Open AccessArthur Lutz, Hester BiemansARTICLENature Climate Change2022
Integration of future water scarcity and electricity supply into prospective LCA
Open AccessPaul Baustert, Elorri Igos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2022
The urgency of tackling global environmental issues calls for radical technological and behavioral changes. New prospective (or ex ante) methods are needed to assess the impacts of these changes. Prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) can contribute by detailed analysis of environmental consequences. A new stream of research has taken up the challenge to create prospective life cycle inventory (LCI) databases, building on projections of integrat…
Strong trade-offs characterise water-energy-food related sustainable development goals in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna River basin
Open AccessChristian Siderius, Paul van Walsum et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
The United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs) set ambitious policy targets for 2030 to overcome poverty while preserving the planet. These goals are not perfectly aligned; trade-offs emerge during implementation at regional and local levels, such as in a river basin. Here, we quantify important trade-offs between water, energy, and food-related SDGs in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna River basin, a climate vulnerability hotspot, using mu…
Identifying Potential Clusters of Future Migration Associated With Water Stress in Africa
Open AccessSophie de Bruin, J M Knoop et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Human Dynamics2022References: 17
Decreasing yields due to water stress form a threat to rural livelihoods and can affect migration dynamics, especially in vulnerable regions that lack the capacity to adapt agriculture to water stress. But since migration is complex, non-linear and context-dependent, it is not feasible to predict the precise number of people that will migrate due to water stress. It is possible to map the different conditions that shape regional vulnerabilities a…
Trade-offs between water needs for food, utilities, and the environment—a nexus quantification at different scales
Open AccessLotte de Vos, Hester Biemans et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021
With a growing population and a changing climate, competition for water resources in the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is expected to increase. In this study, competing water demands between food production, freshwater ecosystems and utilities (energy, industries and households) are quantified. The potential trade-offs and related impacts are elaborated for different SSP scenarios with the integrated assessment model IMAGE, which includes the glo…
From narratives to numbers
Open AccessWouter J Smolenaars, Arthur F Lutz et al.ARTICLEFutures2021Cited by: 3References: 47
Integrated adaptation strategies are needed to achieve the highly interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for water, food- and energy security in the Indus basin. However, detailed quantitative scenarios for the plausible dimensions of future resource security requirements under socio-economic development are lacking. Here we define three quantitative and spatially downscaled scenarios for future water, food and energy requirements in th…
Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers
Open AccessWalter W Immerzeel, Arthur Lutz et al.ARTICLENature2020
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain
Open AccessHester Biemans, Christian Siderius et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 4References: 7
The global nexus of food–trade–water sustaining environmental flows by 2050
Open AccessAmandine Pastor, Amanda Palazzo et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 4References: 16
Integrated scenarios to support analysis of the food–energy–water nexus
Open AccessDetlef P Van Vuuren, David L Bijl et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 2References: 12
Advances in global hydrology–crop modelling to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia
Open AccessHester Biemans, Christian SideriusARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2019Cited by: 1References: 4
Achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the context of a rapidly changing climate and demographics is one of the major challenges for South Asia. Interventions aimed at achieving the SDGs will be varied and are likely to contain basin-wide trade-offs that need to be understood. In this paper, we synthesize recent global hydrology-crop model developments, with a specific focus on human impact parameterisations like the…
The challenge to balance water and food objectives for sustainable development
Open AccessMaryna Strokal, Hester Biemans et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2019References: 4
The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models
Open AccessFang Zhao, Ted Veldkamp et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017
Global hydrological models (GHMs) have been applied to assess global flood hazards, but their capacity to capture the timing and amplitude of peak river discharge—which is crucial in flood simulations—has traditionally not been the focus of examination. Here we evaluate to what degree the choice of river routing scheme affects simulations of peak discharge and may help to provide better agreement with observations. To this end we use runoff and d…
Intercomparison of global river discharge simulations focusing on dam operation—multiple models analysis in two case-study river basins, Missouri–Mississippi and Green–Colorado
Open AccessYoshimitsu Masaki, Naota Hanasaki et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017
We performed a twofold intercomparison of river discharge regulated by dams under multiple meteorological forcings among multiple global hydrological models for a historical period by simulation. Paper II provides an intercomparison of river discharge simulated by five hydrological models under four meteorological forcings. This is the first global multimodel intercomparison study on dam-regulated river flow. Although the simulations were conduct…
Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the Image model
Open AccessJonathan Doelman, Jonathan C Doelman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 21References: 9
Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments
Open AccessAmandine Pastor, Fulco Ludwig et al.ARTICLEHydrology and earth system sciences2014
As the water requirement for food production and other human needs grows, quantification of environmental flow requirements (EFRs) is necessary to assess the amount of water needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems. EFRs are the result of the quantification of water necessary to sustain the riverine ecosystem, which is calculated from the mean of an environmental flow (EF) method. In this study, five EF methods for calculating EFRs were compared w…
Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change
Open AccessIngjerd Haddeland, Jens Heinke et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2014
Significance Humans alter the water cycle by constructing dams and through water withdrawals. Climate change is expected to additionally affect water supply and demand. Here, model analyses of climate change and direct human impacts on the terrestrial water cycle are presented. The results indicate that the impact of man-made reservoirs and water withdrawals on the long-term global terrestrial water balance is small. However, in some river basins…
Adaptation to changing water resources in the Ganges basin, northern India
Open AccessEddy J Moors, Eddy Moors et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2011Cited by: 7References: 3

Adaptation to changing water resources in the Ganges basin, northern India
Open AccessEddy J Moors, Eddy Moors et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2011Cited by: 7References: 3
Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments
Open AccessAmandine Pastor, Fulco Ludwig et al.ARTICLEHydrology and earth system sciences2014
As the water requirement for food production and other human needs grows, quantification of environmental flow requirements (EFRs) is necessary to assess the amount of water needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems. EFRs are the result of the quantification of water necessary to sustain the riverine ecosystem, which is calculated from the mean of an environmental flow (EF) method. In this study, five EF methods for calculating EFRs were compared w…
Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change
Open AccessIngjerd Haddeland, Jens Heinke et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2014
Significance Humans alter the water cycle by constructing dams and through water withdrawals. Climate change is expected to additionally affect water supply and demand. Here, model analyses of climate change and direct human impacts on the terrestrial water cycle are presented. The results indicate that the impact of man-made reservoirs and water withdrawals on the long-term global terrestrial water balance is small. However, in some river basins…
The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models
Open AccessFang Zhao, Ted Veldkamp et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017
Global hydrological models (GHMs) have been applied to assess global flood hazards, but their capacity to capture the timing and amplitude of peak river discharge—which is crucial in flood simulations—has traditionally not been the focus of examination. Here we evaluate to what degree the choice of river routing scheme affects simulations of peak discharge and may help to provide better agreement with observations. To this end we use runoff and d…
Intercomparison of global river discharge simulations focusing on dam operation—multiple models analysis in two case-study river basins, Missouri–Mississippi and Green–Colorado
Open AccessYoshimitsu Masaki, Naota Hanasaki et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017
We performed a twofold intercomparison of river discharge regulated by dams under multiple meteorological forcings among multiple global hydrological models for a historical period by simulation. Paper II provides an intercomparison of river discharge simulated by five hydrological models under four meteorological forcings. This is the first global multimodel intercomparison study on dam-regulated river flow. Although the simulations were conduct…
Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the Image model
Open AccessJonathan Doelman, Jonathan C Doelman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 21References: 9
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain
Open AccessHester Biemans, Christian Siderius et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 4References: 7
The global nexus of food–trade–water sustaining environmental flows by 2050
Open AccessAmandine Pastor, Amanda Palazzo et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 4References: 16
Integrated scenarios to support analysis of the food–energy–water nexus
Open AccessDetlef P Van Vuuren, David L Bijl et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 2References: 12
Advances in global hydrology–crop modelling to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia
Open AccessHester Biemans, Christian SideriusARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2019Cited by: 1References: 4
Achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the context of a rapidly changing climate and demographics is one of the major challenges for South Asia. Interventions aimed at achieving the SDGs will be varied and are likely to contain basin-wide trade-offs that need to be understood. In this paper, we synthesize recent global hydrology-crop model developments, with a specific focus on human impact parameterisations like the…
The challenge to balance water and food objectives for sustainable development
Open AccessMaryna Strokal, Hester Biemans et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2019References: 4
Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers
Open AccessWalter W Immerzeel, Arthur Lutz et al.ARTICLENature2020
Trade-offs between water needs for food, utilities, and the environment—a nexus quantification at different scales
Open AccessLotte de Vos, Hester Biemans et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021
With a growing population and a changing climate, competition for water resources in the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is expected to increase. In this study, competing water demands between food production, freshwater ecosystems and utilities (energy, industries and households) are quantified. The potential trade-offs and related impacts are elaborated for different SSP scenarios with the integrated assessment model IMAGE, which includes the glo…
From narratives to numbers
Open AccessWouter J Smolenaars, Arthur F Lutz et al.ARTICLEFutures2021Cited by: 3References: 47
Integrated adaptation strategies are needed to achieve the highly interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for water, food- and energy security in the Indus basin. However, detailed quantitative scenarios for the plausible dimensions of future resource security requirements under socio-economic development are lacking. Here we define three quantitative and spatially downscaled scenarios for future water, food and energy requirements in th…
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater
Open AccessArthur Lutz, Walter W Immerzeel et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022
Projecting changes in the water sources used for irrigation in South Asia
Open AccessArthur Lutz, Hester BiemansARTICLENature Climate Change2022
Integration of future water scarcity and electricity supply into prospective LCA
Open AccessPaul Baustert, Elorri Igos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2022
The urgency of tackling global environmental issues calls for radical technological and behavioral changes. New prospective (or ex ante) methods are needed to assess the impacts of these changes. Prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) can contribute by detailed analysis of environmental consequences. A new stream of research has taken up the challenge to create prospective life cycle inventory (LCI) databases, building on projections of integrat…
Strong trade-offs characterise water-energy-food related sustainable development goals in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna River basin
Open AccessChristian Siderius, Paul van Walsum et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
The United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs) set ambitious policy targets for 2030 to overcome poverty while preserving the planet. These goals are not perfectly aligned; trade-offs emerge during implementation at regional and local levels, such as in a river basin. Here, we quantify important trade-offs between water, energy, and food-related SDGs in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna River basin, a climate vulnerability hotspot, using mu…
Identifying Potential Clusters of Future Migration Associated With Water Stress in Africa
Open AccessSophie de Bruin, J M Knoop et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Human Dynamics2022References: 17
Decreasing yields due to water stress form a threat to rural livelihoods and can affect migration dynamics, especially in vulnerable regions that lack the capacity to adapt agriculture to water stress. But since migration is complex, non-linear and context-dependent, it is not feasible to predict the precise number of people that will migrate due to water stress. It is possible to map the different conditions that shape regional vulnerabilities a…
Exploring the potential of agricultural system change as an integrated adaptation strategy for water and food security in the Indus basin
Open AccessWouter J Smolenaars, Muhammad Jamil et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2023
Water security and food security in the Indus basin are highly interlinked and subject to severe stresses. Irrigation water demands presently already exceed what the basin can sustainably provide, but per-capita food availability remains limited. Rapid population growth and climate change are projected to further intensify pressure on the interdependencies between water and food security. The agricultural system of the Indus basin must therefore …
Contextualising seasonal forecasts to accelerate their uptake for agricultural decision-making
Open AccessIgnacio Saldivia Gonzatti, Wouter J Smolenaars et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025