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Prof. Bart Schultz PhD, MSc

Professor

Biography

Prof. Schultz graduated from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. He also obtained his PhD degree here on the topic `Water Management of the drained lakes in the Netherlands'.

His career includes more than 35 years of research, advising and project implementation in the field of land and water development, drainage, irrigation, environmental engineering and flood management.
The first part of his career he worked as head of the Water Management Division in the IJsselmeerpolders Development Authority.

In addition to his part time appointment at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education he was top advisor in Rijkswaterstaat until December 2009, Civil Engineering Division. In this capacity he was, among others, responsible for environmental impact studies on major hydraulic works, as well as for advice, design and implementation of large scale environmental engineering and flood management projects.

At UNESCO-IHE, Prof. Schultz was responsible for education and research in Land and Water Development. Under his guidance about 200 overseas participants obtained their Master of Engineering degree (MEng), 190 participants their Master of Science degree (MSc) and 15 participants their PhD degree.

From September 1999 to July 2002 he was President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).

He is author of more than 280 papers in the field of land reclamation, drainage, irrigation and flood management and editor of several proceedings of National and International Conferences. He is chairman of the Editorial Board of the ISI Science Journals Citation Index listed journal Irrigation and Drainage.

During his career he visited more than 30 countries to: (i) participate in international research; (ii) appraise, evaluate, or advice in projects; (iii) teach in the fields of land reclamation, drainage, irrigation and flood protection projects.
He is a member of the International Water Academy, Oslo, Norway.

Publications

  • Schultz, Bart, 2012. The Beemster, a drained lake since 400 years. In: Proceedings International Seminar on Historical Water Sustainability: Lessons to learn, 24 June 2012, Adelaide, Australia.
  • Schultz, Bart, 2012. Land and water development. Finding a balance between planning, implementation, management and sustainability. Valedictory address delivered on the occasion of the retirement from the Chair of Land and Water Development at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Delft, the Netherlands, May 8, 2012.
  • Schultz Bart, Laszlo Hayde and Park Sang-Hyun, 2011. Global inventory of closed-off tidal basins and developments after the closure. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable development of tidal lands. 21st Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), October 2011, Tehran, Iran.
  • Wrachien, Daniele de, Stefano Mambretti and Bart Schultz, 2011. Flood Management and Risk Assessment in Flood-prone Areas: Measures and Solutions. Irrigation and Drainage 60.2.
  • Schultz, Bart. Are we really concerned? Climate and land use changes in flood prone areas. In: Proceedings of 25th European Regional ICID Conference on Deltas in Europe. Integrated water management for multiple land use in flat coastal areas, 16 – 20 May 2011, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Hartoyo Suprianto, Erwin Ravaie, Sumarjo Gatot Irianto, Robiyanto H. Susanto, Bart Schultz, F.X. Suryadi and Ad van den Eelaart. Land and water management tidal lowlands. Experiences in Telang and Saleh, South Sumatra, Irrigation and Drainage. Volume 59 Issue 3, 2010.
  • Schultz, Bart, Henri Tardieu, Alain Vidal. Role of water management for global food production and poverty alleviation. Irrigation and Drainage. Volume 58 Issue S1. Supplement: Special Issue on Water for Food and Poverty Alleviation, 2009.
  • Schultz, Bart, Daniel Zimmer and Willem Vlotman. Drainage under increasing and changing requirements. Irrigation and Drainage. Special Issue: Drainage an essential element of integrated water management, 2007.
  • Schultz, Bart, Flood management under rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in flood prone areas. a need for serious consideration, Irrigation and Drainage, Special Issue on Integrated Flood Management, 2006.
  • Schultz, Bart, C.D. Thatte and V.K. Labhsetwar, Irrigation and drainage. Main contributors to global food production. Irrigation and Drainage Volume 54, Issue 3, 2005.

 

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