Rens van Beek

Biographic Data

ID6441464
NAMERens van Beek
GIVEN NAMESRens
FAMILY NAMEvan Beek
SIGNATUREVAN BEEK R
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-4758-108X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Helga

    Open AccessSioux Fanny Melo León, Stijn Reinhard et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Overexploitation of groundwater for irrigation can ultimately threaten the viability of agriculture itself, because the falling groundwater levels become too deep to sustain the increasing costs of groundwater extraction, an economic limit is reached. In order to evaluate possible adaptation strategies to avoid or postpone reaching the economic limit, we developed the microeconomic heuristic model HELGA (hydro-economic limits as a global analysis…

  • Offshore fresh groundwater in coastal unconsolidated sediment systems as a potential fresh water source in the 21st century

    Open AccessDaniel Zamrsky, Gualbert Oude Essink et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Coastal areas worldwide are often densely populated and host regional agricultural and industrial hubs. Strict water quality requirements for agricultural, industrial and domestic use are regularly not satisfied by surface waters in coastal areas and consequently lead to over-exploitation of local fresh groundwater resources. Additional pressure by both climate change and population growth further intensifies the upcoming water stress and raise t…

  • Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios

    Open AccessJeffrey Hoch, Sophie de Bruin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    In the past decade, several efforts have been made to project armed conflict risk into the future. This study broadens current approaches by presenting a first-of-its-kind application of machine learning (ML) methods to project sub-national armed conflict risk over the African continent along three Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios and three Representative Concentration Pathways towards 2050. Results of the open-source ML framework CoP…

  • Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways

    Open AccessArthur Beusen, A H W Beusen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 3References: 5

    This global spatially explicit (0.5 by 0.5 degree) analysis presents the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) inputs, processing and biogeochemical retention and delivery to surface waters and river export to coastal seas according to the five shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP). Four systems are considered: (i) human system; (ii) agriculture; (iii) aquaculture; (iv) nature. Exploring the changes during 1980–2015 and 2015–2050 according to the SSPs sh…

  • Multi-model assessment of global hydropower and cooling water discharge potential under climate change

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Rens van Beek et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 5

  • Assessing flood risk at the global scale

    Open AccessPhilip J Ward, Brenden Jongman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Globally, economic losses from flooding exceeded $19 billion in 2012, and are rising rapidly. Hence, there is an increasing need for global-scale flood risk assessments, also within the context of integrated global assessments. We have developed and validated a model cascade for producing global flood risk maps, based on numerous flood return-periods. Validation results indicate that the model simulates interannual fluctuations in flood impacts w…

  • Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide

    Open AccessYoshihide Wada, Rens van Beek et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Over the past 50 years, human water use has more than doubled and affected streamflow over various regions of the world. However, it remains unclear to what degree human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought (the occurrence of anomalously low streamflow). Here, we quantify over the period 1960–2010 the impact of human water consumption on the intensity and frequency of hydrological drought worldwide. The results show that human water…

  • Nonsustainable groundwater sustaining irrigation

    Open AccessYoshihide Wada, Rens van Beek et al.ARTICLEWater Resources Research2012

    Water used by irrigated crops is obtained from three sources: local precipitation contributing to soil moisture available for root water uptake (i.e., green water), irrigation water taken from rivers, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, and renewable groundwater (i.e., blue water), and irrigation water abstracted from nonrenewable groundwater and nonlocal water resources. Here we quantify globally the amount of nonrenewable or nonsustainable groundwater…