Agnes

Pranindita

MSc

PhD candidate

agnes.pranindita@su.se

+46 8-674 7786

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  • Moisture recycling governance
  • Moisture tracking model
  • Land use and land cover change
  • Forest-agriculture dependence
  • Stewardship of precipitation

Agnes Pranindita studies ways in which moisture recycling connects distant regions and intertwines aspects of human livelihood

Pranindita’s research looks at ways to integrate the concept of moisture recycling into land use governance. Moisture recycling processes embedded in a social-ecological system suggests that the impact of land use and land cover transition is not solely limited to changes in moisture availability and transport. The social and economic implications of the changes in moisture balance may reveal that sources and sinks of moisture are all the more entangled.

Pranindita’s research aims to advance the understanding of moisture recycling’s role in connecting aspects of human livelihood at different scales as well as in different sectors, and how this role may influence future land use governance.

Pranindita holds an MSc degree in Earth and Environment, specializing in Hydrology and Water Resources from Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands, and a BASc in Process Engineering and Food Technology from De Haagse Hogeschool, the Netherlands.

Prior to her PhD, she was a research assistant at the Stockholm Resilience Centre for the Ripples of Resilience project. The objective of the project was to explore the refinement of the water planetary boundary and the pathways to navigate the achievement of SDG’s within the proposed boundary.

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ORCHID: 0000-0002-0075-334X

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Publications by Pranindita, Agnes

A forgotten element of the blue economy: marine biomimetics and inspiration from the deep sea

Journal / article | 2022

Blasiak, R., Jouffray, J., Amon, D., Moberg, F., Claudet, J., Søgaard Jørgensen, P., Pranindita, A., Wabnitz, C., Österblom, H.. 2022. A forgotten element of the blue economy: marine biomimetics and inspiration from the deep sea. PNAS Nexus. doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac196

The morphology, physiology, and behavior of marine organisms have been a valuable source of inspiration for solving conceptual and design problems. Here, we introduce this rich and rapidly expanding field of marine biomimetics, and identify it as a poorly articulated and often overlooked element of the ocean economy associated with substantial monetary benefits. We showcase innovations across seven broad categories of marine b...

Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration

Journal / article | 2022

Hoek van Dijke, A., Herold, M., Mallick, K., Benedict, I., Machwitz, M., Schlerf, M., Pranindita, A., Theeuwen, J., Bastin, J., Teuling, A. 2022. Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration. Nature Geoscience. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00935-0

Tree restoration is an effective way to store atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. However, large-scale tree-cover expansion has long been known to increase evaporation, leading to reduced local water availability and streamflow. More recent studies suggest that increased precipitation, through enhanced atmospheric moisture recycling, can offset this effect. Here we calculate how 900 million hectares of global tree ...

The spatio-temporal evolution of groundwater dependent precipitation

Journal / article | 2021

Passet, C., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Wada, Y., Pranindita, A., and De Boer, A.: The spatio-temporal evolution of groundwater dependent precipitation, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-15579, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15579, 2021.

A substantial portion of groundwater abstracted from aquifers is used for irrigation and evaporated to the atmosphere, potentially contributing towards downwind precipitation. While the fate of evaporation fluxes from land have been analysed, the atmospheric pathways of evaporation originating from groundwater have not yet been globally quantified. This study analysed the geographical distribution, the seasonality and the m...

The role of forests in securing water for agriculture globally

Journal / article | 2021

Pranindita, A., Teuling, A. J., Fetzer, I., and Wang-Erlandsson, L.: The role of forests in securing water for agriculture globally, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-15766, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15766, 2021.

Forests worldwide supply moisture to downwind precipitation through moisture recycling. Agricultural areas located downwind of forests are, hence, susceptible to changes in precipitation caused by upwind forest changes. In fact, human activities have driven extensive forest cover changes in different parts of the world, in different directions, and at different rates. Nevertheless, the forest-agriculture relationship has yet t...