​Dr. Patrick Huntjens
Dr. Patrick Huntjens is an expert on water diplomacy, focusing on issues related to the prevention and resolution of water-related disputes around the globe. Huntjens has worked in over 38 countries and has developed practical experience on water and climate related issues. He is also an accomplished international academic.
Dr. Patrick Huntjens is Senior Researcher for the water diplomacy initiative at the Institute. He tackles issues related to the governance, law, prevention and resolution of water-related disputes around the globe.
Dr. Huntjens has a multi-disciplinary background, including a Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in Complex System Sciences and Policy Sciences, and two Masters degrees in Biology and Political Science & International Relations (cum laude).
Before joining the Institute, Dr. Huntjens was Director of the Water Partner Foundation, a non-profit organisation established in The Hague. In recent years, Dr. Huntjens was leading several international projects on water diplomacy, water governance and climate change adaptation in the Middle East, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
In the past 15 years, Dr. Huntjens has been working in 38 countries, assigned by a wide variety of clients, e.g. European Commission, United Nations, World Bank, National Governments of The Netherlands, Pakistan, Turkey, Kosovo, Vietnam, and several NGO's. As such he has developed expertise and practical experience on (adaptive) water governance and institutions, water diplomacy and negotiations, international relations, participatory and strategic planning, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, adaptive and integrated water resource management, capacity building, and institutional strengthening.
Dr. Huntjens' Water Management and Water Governance in a Changing Climate (2011) has been published in several languages, and has been endorsed by the 2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Prof. Dr. Elinor Ostrom. The work strengthens the conceptual foundations and practical value of adaptive approaches to water management and water governance in a changing climate. On the basis of a broad comparative analysis of policies and practices in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, it focuses on the capacity of management regimes to cope with the two most common extreme weather events: floods and droughts.
Dr. Huntjens has also published many peer-reviewed articles in renowned international journals, a wide range of book chapters, consultancy reports, and policy reports and has made a number of media appearances.
Topical and Regional Expertise: Conflict Prevention; Water Governance; Water Diplomacy; Water Resources Management; Mediation;, Negotiation; Climate change; Climate Change Adaptation; Water security; Climate Security; water-food-energy nexus; Disaster Risk Reduction; Sustainable development; ecology; ecosystems; adaptive capacity; delta governance; resilience; Middle East; Africa; South East Asia; Australia; Europe; US; Palestine Territories; Israel; Jordan; Yemen; Vietnam; Thailand; India; Bangladesh; Pakistan; Rwanda; Uganda; South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kosovo.
Forms and foundations of action research
Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Participation in climate adaptation in the Lower Vam Co River Basin in Vietnam
Inside Story: Water Under Pressure
Water Management and Water Governance in a Changing Climate: Experiences and Insights on Climate Change Adaptation in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia
Eburon Academic Publisher
Special on water conflicts in Veja Magazine: The most precious resource to people
Veja Magazine
Institutional Design Propositions for the Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in the Water Sector
Adaptive Water Management and Policy Learning in a Changing climate – A formal comparative analysis of eight water management regimes in Europe, Africa and Asia
Environmental Policy and Governance
Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Adapt
Climate Change Adaptation in European River Basins
Regional Environmental Change
Integrating Self-Governance in Heavily Regulated Policy Fields: Insights from a Dutch Farmers' Cooperative
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Preferred Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Lower Vam Co River Basin, Vietnam [PDF]
Long An Province, Vietnam
Managing the Invisible: Understanding and Improving Groundwater Governance
National Adaptation Strategy (NAS) for Kosovo [PDF]
Cross-comparison of climate change adaptation strategies across large river basins in Europe, Africa and Asia
Environmental Security Assessment of the Mekong River Basin
Institute for Environmental Security
Nederland is droog, heel droog
Uitgesproken VARA (live TV-broadcasting)
Wat zijn de gevolgen van de droogte in Nederland?
EenVandaag (TV-broadcasting)
Working Paper: Effectiveness of Multi-stakeholder Dialogues on Water – June 2015
Working Paper: Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier for Human Disaster and Conflict – May 2015
Policy Brief: Adaptive Delta Governance – May 2015
Europe, Middle East & North Africa, Southeast Asia, Sub Saharan Africa
Completed: Integrated Transboundary Master Plan for the Lower Jordan River Basin
Building on the framework of three important elements -- access, security and sustainability -- this Transboundary Master Plan for the Lower Jordan River Basin…
Transboundary Water Cooperation over the Brahmaputra River
This report presents findings from the project 'Water Diplomacy: Making Water Cooperation Work'. It analyzes key factors that affect transboundary water cooperation over the Brahmaputra river…
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