Louise is a Research Fellow and joined the institute in 2006. She specialises in flows of water and matter in terrestrial ecosystems and holds a PhD in Land and Water Resources Sciences from the Royal Institute of technology (KTH), Sweden.

Her work focuses on water management in small-scale agriculture in tropical regions, and in particular on the modelling of transpiration and photosynthesis and the impact of climate and environment. In recent years, Louise’s research has also included modelling of carbon turnover in terrestrial ecosystems.

Publications

• Assessing impacts of agricultural water interventions in the Kothapally watershed, Southern India (Journal article - 2012)

• The planetary water drama: Dual task of feeding humanity and curbing climate change (Journal article - 2012)

• Up-scaling potential impacts on water flows from agricultural water interventions: opportunities and trade-offs in the Osman Sagar catchment, Musi sub-basin, India (Journal article - 2012)

• Global food production in a water-constrained world: Exploring 'green' and 'blue' challenges and solutions (Book chapter - 2011)

• The quadruple squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a triply green revolution in the Anthropocene (Journal article - 2010)

• Journal of Hydrology: Green-Blue Water Initiative (GBI) (Journal article - 2010)

• Identifying Suitable Areas for Water Harvesting in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia (Conference paper - 2010)

• Opportunities to increase water productivity in agriculture with special reference to Africa and South Asia (Project report - 2009)

• Improving Food Production and Sustainable Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa (Fact sheet - 2009)

• Greening the Global Water System (Journal article - 2009)

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Projects

• Triple Green II

  
  

• Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture