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Philippus Wester is affiliated with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific expertise spanning atmospheric science, management and policy, water science and technology, global planetary change, and sociology and political science.

Their principal areas of work include cryospheric studies and observations, rangeland management and livestock ecology, hydrology and watershed management studies, climate change and permafrost, water resources management and optimization, flood risk assessment and management, and climate variability and models.

Philippus Wester has contributed to several recently published papers, including:

  • South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Knowledge Priorities on Climate Change and Water in the Upper Indus Basin: A Horizon Scanning Exercise to Identify the Top 100 Research Questions in Social and Natural Sciences, 2022, Earth s Future
  • Human populations in the world's mountains: Spatio-temporal patterns and potential controls, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • The Hindu Kush Himalaya Call to Action: Sustaining Mountain Environments and Improving Livelihoods, 2020, Mountain Research and Development
  • Fifty years of excellence in water resources research: insights from the most cited articles per decade published in Water International, 2025, Water International

Their frequent co-authors include A. B. Shrestha, James Thornton, Mark A. Snethlage, Roger Sayre, and Davnah Urbach, with multiple collaborations recorded.

Philippus Wester has published several works in noted venues, including Water International, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Climate Change, Earth s Future, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Erik Swyngedouw;Jeroen Vos

  • Hydraulic Bureaucracies and the Hydraulic Mission: Flows of Water, Flows of Power

    François Molle;Peter P. Mollinga;Philippus Wester

  • Water, Politics and Development: Framing a Political Sociology of Water Resources Management

    P.P. Mollinga;A. Bhat;F. Cleaver;R. Meinzen-Dick

  • Selecting representative climate models for climate change impact studies : An advanced envelope-based selection approach

    Arthur F. Lutz;Herbert W. ter Maat;Hester Biemans;Arun B. Shrestha

  • Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain

    H. Biemans;H. Biemans;C. Siderius;C. Siderius;A. F. Lutz;S. Nepal

  • River basin closure: Processes, implications and responses

    François Molle;Philippus Wester;Philip Hirsch

  • Boundaries of Consent: Stakeholder Representation in River Basin Management in Mexico and South Africa

    Philippus Wester;Douglas J Merrey;Marna de Lange

  • Going with the flow: River basins as the natural units for water management?

    Jeroen Warner;Philippus Wester;Alex Bolding

  • The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

    Arabinda Mishra;Arun Bhakta Shrestha;Philippus Wester;Aditi Mukherji

  • The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions

    Declan Conway;Robert J. Nicholls;Sally Brown;Sally Brown;Mark G.L. Tebboth

  • River basin development and management

    F. Molle;P. Wester;P. Hirsch;J.R. Jensen

  • Review article: Inferring permafrost and permafrost thaw in the mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region

    Stephan Gruber;Renate Fleiner;Emilie Guegan;Prajjwal Panday

  • Assessment of permafrost distribution maps in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using rock glaciers mapped in Google Earth

    M.-O. Schmid;P. Baral;S. Gruber;S. Shahi

  • River basin management reconsidered

    P. Wester;J. Warner

  • Agua para todos: the new regionalist hydraulic paradigm in Spain.

    E. Lopez-Gunn;F. Molle;P. Mollinga;P. Wester

  • Shedding the waters : institutional change and water control in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico

    P. Wester

  • South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater

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  • Trends in flood risk management in deltas around the world: Are we going ‘soft’?

    A. Wesselink;J.F. Warner;M.A. Syed;F. Chan

  • River basin trajectories : societies, environments and development

    Francois Molle;P. Wester

  • Intensive groundwater use and (in)equity: Processes and governance challenges

    Jaime Hoogesteger;Philippus Wester;Philippus Wester

  • Introduction to the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

    Eklabya Sharma;David Molden;Atiq Rahman;Yuba Raj Khatiwada

Frequent Co-Authors

Francois Molle
Francois Molle Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Arun Bhakta Shrestha
Arun Bhakta Shrestha International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Mark New
Mark New University of Cape Town
Jeroen Warner
Jeroen Warner Wageningen University & Research
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Walter W. Immerzeel
Walter W. Immerzeel Utrecht University
David Molden
David Molden World Bank
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Eklabya Sharma
Eklabya Sharma Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Stephan Gruber
Stephan Gruber Carleton University

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