Dr Marlies Barendrecht is interested in improving the understanding of the feedbacks between humans and water. She works in the field of socio-hydrology focusing on drought and flood risk.

Marlies is a Lecturer in Natural and Environmental Hazards in the Department of Geography. She studies human-water systems using a variety of methods including the analysis of empirical data (both quantitative and qualitative), quantitative modelling of human-water systems, and the integration of empirical data and models.

Prior to working at King's she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the VU Amsterdam, investigating drought-to-flood events and how they are influenced by human-water interactions. She completed her PhD in 2020 at the Technical University of Vienna, studying human-flood interactions.

Research

• Human-water interactions
• Socio-hydrology
• Drought risk
• Flood risk
• Water security
• Interdisciplinary research
• Combining qualitative and quantitative methods
• System dynamics modelling
• Empirical methods

Marlies' research investigates how humans influence the hydrological cycle and how this affects drought and flood risk. She is interested in combining qualitative and quantitative methods and working in an interdisciplinary setting to improve socio-hydrological research.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 4SSG1011 Principles of Geographical Inquiry
• 4SSG1013 The Changing Natural Environment 2
• 5SSG2042 Natural Hazards
• 6SSG3064 Methods for Natural Hazards Risk Assessment

Postgraduate

• 7SSGN110 Environmental Data Analysis

PhD supervision

Marlies is happy to supervise students on the following topics:

• Drought adaptation and its feedbacks on hydrology
• The robustness of drought/flood adaptation against climate change in a socio-hydrological context
• Improving the "socio" in socio-hydrology
• Novel methods for socio-hydrology and improving socio-hydrological models and frameworks

Further details

See Marlies' research profile