Jos Brils

• Leader of the biggest work package in the Horizon 2020 Coordination Support Action project INSPIRATION: INtegrated Spatial PlannIng, land use and soil management Research AcTION

  Europe, 2014-2018

• Scientific coordinator of the Dutch Partners for Water project “Green Infrastructure solutions for solving Beira’s stormwater and other problems”

  Mozambique, Africa, 2014-2015

• Initiator and coordinator of the Climate KIC-project “Catalyzing Green Infrastructure”, catalyzing done by using the ecosystem services approach

  Netherlands, Poland, 2013-2014

• Initiator and coordinator (phase I) of trans-boundary ecosystem services project on the Dutch-German river Vecht. Project funded by Dutch and German Environmental ministries and aimed to develop a ‘down-to-earth’ Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme

  Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, 2012

• Initiator and coordinator (phase I) of trans-boundary ecosystem services project on the Dutch-German river Vecht. Project funded by Dutch and German Environmental ministries and aimed to develop a ‘down-to-earth’ Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme

  Netherlands, Germany, 2011-2012

• Partner in EC FP7 project PSI-connect that aimed to improve the quality and value of interactions between the science base and river basin managers and policy makers concerned with climate change adaptation and implementation of the WFD. Particularly contributed to the development of, and learning in the EU case.

  Europe, 2009-2012

• Initiator and coordinator of the EC FP6 Coordination Action project RISKBASE that delivered an innovative approach towards risk-informed management of European river basins

  Europe, 2006-2009

• Coordinator of the Dutch Living with Water project AquaTerra-NL that helped to improve the science-policy interface in the field of local/regional water management in relation to the WFD implementation

  The Netherlands, 2005-2009

• Leader Integrator-2 work package in the EC FP6 Integrated Project AquaTerra that aimed at a better understanding of the groundwater-soil-sediment-river system as a whole

  Europe, 2004-2008

• Initiator and coordinator of the EC FP5 Thematic Network project SedNet aimed at sustainable management of sediment at river basin scale. Network continued as fully self-supporting European Sediment Network

  Europe, 2002-2004

• Key-factors for successful application of ecosystem services-based approaches to water resources management: The role of stakeholder participation

  In press
  Brils, J., Appleton, A., van Everdingen, N. and Bright, D. (in press). In: J. Martin-Ortega, R. C. Ferrier, I. J. Gordon & S. Khan (eds.), Water Ecosystem Services: A Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Risk-Informed Management of European River Basins

  2014
  Brils J, Brack W, Müller-Grabherr, D, Negrel P, Vermaat J (Eds). Book in Springer book series “The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry”, ISBN 978-3-642-38597-1

• Introduction: the need for Risk-Informed River Basin Management

  2014
  Brils J, Barcelo D, Blum W, Brack W , Harris B, Müller D, Négrel P, Ragnarsdottir V, Salomons W, Slob A, Track T, Vegter J, Vermaat J. In: Brils J, et al. (Eds)(2014)

• Synthesis and Recommendations towards Risk-Informed River Basin Management

  2014
  Brils J, Barcelo D, Blum W, Brack W , Harris B, Müller D, Négrel P, Ragnarsdottir V, Salomons W, Slob A, Track T, Vegter J, Vermaat J. In: Brils J, et al. (Eds)(2014)

• Ecosystem Services in River Basin Management

  2014
  Brauman K, van der Meulen S, Brils J, In: Brils J, et al. (Eds)(2014)

• Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in support of river restoration

  2013
  Van der Meulen S, Brils J, Borowski-Maaser I, Sauer U (2013). Water Governance, 04/2013: 40-44

• Towards practical implementation of the ecosystem services (ES) concept in trans-boundary water management

  2012
  Van der Meulen S, Neubauer L, Brils J, Borowski-Maaser. Deltares report 1204644-000-BGS-0004

• Towards risk-based river basin management as an approach to overcome wicked water problems

  2010
  Brils J. In: Khan S, Savenije H, Demuth S, Pierre Hubert P (2010), pp 70-71 Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems. IAHS Publ. 338 (2010), 272 + x pp

• The European Water Framework Directive beyond 2010: let actions speak louder than words

  2010
  Brils J, Quevauviller Ph, Slob A, Blind M, Davy T, Carere M, Amorsi N, Brack W, Borchers U, Thomspon C, Villessot D. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 12:2204–2206

• Water Framework Directive – From groundwater level controller towards initiator of regional policy processes

  2010
  Brils J. Het Waterschap, 7/8:20-21 (in Dutch)

• Rhine sediment quality and its management

  2009
  Keller M, Brils J. In: Spreafico M., Lehmann C. (Eds.). Erosion, Transport and Deposition of Sediment - Case Study Rhine. Contribution to the International Sediment Initiative of UNESCO/IHP. Report no II-20 of the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin (CHR), pp 127-133

• Sediment monitoring and the European Water Framework Directive

  2008
  Brils J. Ann. Ist Super Sanita. Vol. 44 (3):218-223

• Conceptual Models in River Basin Management

  2008
  Chapman A, Brils J, Ansink E, Herivaux C, Strosser P. In Groundwater Science & Policy. An International Overview. Quevauviller Ph (edts), RSC Publishing

• Approaches and Frameworks for Managing Contaminated Sediments - A European Perspective

  2006
  Apitz S, Brils J, Marcomini A, Critto A, Agostini P, Micheletti C. Pippa R, Scanferla P, Zuin S, Lanczos T, Dercova K, Kocan A, Petrik J, Hucko P, Kusnir P. In: Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments. Eds. Reible D. & Lanczos T. NATO Science Series IV, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vol. 73, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, the Netherlands

• Sediment Monitoring under the EU Water Framework Directive

  2004
  Brils J. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2:72-73

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