Jos Timmerman

Jos Timmerman is part-time researcher at Alterra Earth System Science and Climate Change Group. The other part he works for the Ministry of Infrastructure - DG for Water Affairs. The work at the Ministry includes taking part in the Water Mondiaal programme as contact person for Egypt, contributing to the UNECE Task Force on Water and Climate, and being secretary of the Dutch delegation in the International Commission for the Scheldt River.

His work at Alterra deals with adaptation to climate change with a focus on water and with water monitoring and assessment, both linking to the policy context. Recent work includes a baseline study for a revision of the IPCC technical guidelines for scientists en UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies and developing a chapter on water in the European Environment Agency’s Assessment of Assessments process.

Education

• Wageningen University; Biology (1986)
• Wageningen University; PhD: Bridging the water information gap - Structuring the process of specification of information needs in water management (2011)

• Possibilities for updating or revising the IPCC Guidance and UNEP Handbook on methods of Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (VIA) Assessment
• European Environment Agency: Assessment of Assessments for Water

• Timmerman, J.G., S. Koeppel, F. Bernardini and J.J. Buntsma, 2011. Adaptation to Climate Change: Challenges for Transboundary Water Management. Chapter 32 in Filho, W.L. (Ed.) The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change, Climate Change Management, 2011, Part 4, 523-541, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14776-0_32
• Timmerman, J.G., E. Beinat, C.J.A.M. Termeer and W.P. Cofino, 2010. Specifying information needs for Dutch national policy evaluation. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 12: 1907–1917
• Timmerman, J.G., E. Beinat, C.J.A.M. Termeer, and W.P. Cofino, 2010. A methodology to bridge the water information gap. Water Science and Technology 62(10): 2419-2426
• Timmerman, J.G., E. Beinat, C.J.A.M. Termeer and W.P. Cofino, 2010. Analysing the data-rich-but-information-poor syndrome in Dutch water management in historical perspective, Environmental Management 45(5): 1231-1242
• Krysanova, V., Ch. Dickens, J.G. Timmerman, C. Varela-Ortega, M. Schlüter, K. Roest, P. Huntjens, F. Jaspers, H. Buiteveld, E. Moreno, J. de Pedraza Carrera, R. Slámová, M. Martínková, I. Blanco, P. Esteve, K. Pringle, C. Pahl-Wostl and P. Kabat, 2010. Cross-Comparison of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Across Large River Basins in Europe, Africa and Asia. Water Resoures Management 24: 4121–4160
• Timmerman, J.G., 2010. The Trans-boundary Rivers on the Iberian Peninsula and the Water Management Regime between Spain and Portugal. Chapter 12 in Tvedt, T., G. Chapman and R. Hagen (Eds.) A History of Water, Series II, Volume 3. Water, Geopolitics and the New world Order. I.B. Tauris, London, UK. pp. 261 -282. ISBN: 9781848853515
• UNECE, 2009. Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change. (lead author) United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. ISBN 9789211170108. (http://www.unece.org/env/water/publications/documents/Guidance_water_climate.pdf) Raadgever, G.T., E. Mostert, N. Kranz, E. Interwies, and J.G. Timmerman. 2008. Assessing management regimes in transboundary river basins: do they support adaptive management? Ecology and Society 13(1): 14. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art14/
• Timmerman, J.G. and F. Bernardini, 2008. Adapting to climate change in transboundary water management. Perspective document for World Water Forum 5, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/fileadmin/wwc/Library/Publications_and_reports/Climate_Change/PersPap_06._
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• Timmerman, J.G., C. Pahl-Wostl and J. Möltgen, 2008. The adaptiveness of IWRM: Analysing European research. IWA publishing, London, UK. ISBN: 1843391724Roll, G. and J.G. Timmerman, 2006. Communicating with stakeholders and the public. Pages 127-148 in: Gooch, G. and P. Stalnacke (Eds.) Integrated Transboundary Water Management in Theory and Practice: Experiences from the New EU Eastern Border. IWA publishing, London, UK. ISBN: 1-84339-084-1
• Timmerman, J.G. and S. Langaas, 2005. Water information: what is it good for. On the use of information in transboundary water management. Regional Environmental Change 5(4): 177-187
• Timmerman, J.G., 2005. Analysis of transboundary regimes. Case study basin Nile. NeWater report Timmerman, J.G. and J. Doze, 2005. Analysis of transboundary regimes. Case study basin Guadiana. NeWater report
• Timmerman, J.G. and S. Langaas (eds.), 2004. Environmental information in European transboundary water management. IWA Publishing, London, UK. ISBN: 1 84339 038 8
• Timmerman, J.G., R.M.A. Breukel and P.J.M. Latour, 2003. Implementation of monitoring requirements for the new European water policy. Water Resources Update 125: 10 – 17
• Timmerman, J.G., J. De Boer, M. Hisschemöller and W.H. Mulder, 2001. Specifying information needs: improving the working methodology. Regional Environmental Change 2(2): 77-84
• Timmerman, J.G. , J.J. Ottens and R.C. Ward, 2000. The information cycle as a framework for defining information goals for water quality monitoring. Environmental management 25 (3): 229 -239
• Timmerman, J.G., M. Adriaanse, R.M.A. Breukel, M.C.M. van Oirschot and J.J. Ottens, 1997. Guidelines for water quality monitoring and assessment of transboundary rivers. European Water Pollution Control 7 (5): 21 -30