Dr Catarina Henriques
Research Fellow in Integrated Water Management and Climate Change Adaption
Location: Vincent Building, Cranfield campus
E: c.henriques@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5576
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Catarina Henriques’ areas of expertise are in integrated water resources management, climate change adaptation and simulation modelling. She is undertaking research in the potential of water trading to respond to water scarcity and allocation problems. More flexibility in transferring, sharing and trading water in the UK can bring more efficient allocation of water, the development of economical new supply options and environmental improvements.For further information about this project please visit the website.
Catarina is also involved in the PSI-connect project which aims at improving the quality and value of interactions between science and policy to solve the challenges posed by climate change on water resources. Her main role is to disseminate the project and to evaluate knowledge brokering practices to connect policy and science.
Clients
- EC Framework Programme 7
- EPSRC
Background
Dr Catarina Henriques graduated in Environmental Engineering from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto. She specialised in Water Management and was awarded her MSc and PhD degrees at Cranfield University. Her doctoral research, completed in 2007, focused on the hydrology and water resources management in East Anglia and North West England in the context of climate and socio-economic changes.
Catarina volunteered with the RSPB contributing to the assessment of the impact of deforestation on the water resources of Gola Forest, Sierra Leone. She joined Anglian Water Services as a water resources modeller and her key role was to ensure the security of water supplies both in the present and in the future. She became a Chartered Member of CIWEM and was involved in projects to enhance the resilience of the distribution network, to protect critical sites from flooding and to ensure appropriate reservoir management. Catarina joins Cranfield University as a research fellow in June 2011.
Selected publications
- Henriques, C., Spraggs, G. (2011). Alleviating the flood risk of critical water supply sites: asset and system resilience. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology – Aqua 60(1) 61-68.
- Henriques, C. and Fowler, M. (2009). ‘Case studies in resilience analysis and scheme selection’. Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI).
- Henriques, C., Holman, I.P., Audsley, E., Pearn, K. (2008). An interactive multi-scale integrated assessment of future regional water availability for agricultural irrigation in East Anglia and North West England. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9459-0.
- Harrison, P.A., Berry, P.M., Henriques, C., Holman, I.P. (2008). Impacts of socio-economic and climate change scenarios on wetlands: linking water resource and biodiversity meta-models. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9454-5.
- Mokrech, M., Nicholls, R.J., Richards, J.A., Henriques, C., Holman, I.P., Shackley, S. (2008). Regional impact assessment of flooding under future climate and socio-economic scenarios for East Anglia and North West England. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9449-2.
