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Petra Hellegers

Prof dr. ir at Wageningen University & Research

Areas of expertise

  • - Environmental economics
  • - Water management
  • - Biofuels
  • - Water policy
  • - Water rights
  • - Water use
  • - Groundwater
  • - Groundwater level
  • - Irrigation
  • - Irrigation systems
  • - Water footprint
  • - Agricultural water management
  • - Water economics
  • - Water productivity

Major works

About me

Petra Hellegers is Professor and Chair of the Water Resources Management Group of WUR. She has extensive experience in the socio-economic analysis of water allocation decisions, and in studying the role of economic instruments in irrigation water management.

She conducted research in Australia, Egypt, India, Morocco, Mozambique, South-Africa, Ukraine and Yemen. She leads a group with 18 staff members (>15 FTE) and 30 PhDs (she is first promotor for 15 PhDs) working in the fields of agricultural water management, water governance and contested knowledge.