Dr Jasper Verschuur

Profile

Jasper Verschuur is a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS) group at the Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford) and currently part of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience. Jasper holds a BSc and MSc, both with distinction, in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology and a MSc with distinction in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford. Jasper received his DPhil in Geography and the Environment in 2022 with his thesis focused on global climate risks to port infrastructure and maritime trade.

Jasper's research combines knowledge from climate analysis, critical infrastructure modelling, economics and system analysis. He is mainly interested in quantifying global system interactions of infrastructure, trade and supply-chains networks and the risks posed to these networks from climate-related extremes or other disasters. His research aims to identify policies to promote resilience and sustainability within these coupled systems.

I work mainly in the following fields:

Maritime transport and disruption analysis
Maritime transport decarbonisation
Risks to global food security and food trade
Infrastructure climate risk and resilience analysis
Adaptation of climate risks, including equity aspects of adaptation

Jasper works closely with various international organisations. He is a consultant for the World Bank Maritime Team and Bangladesh country office. Further, he does consultancy work for the International Transport Forum at the OECD, and works closely together with colleagues at the IMF on the development of a global platform to monitor trade-related disruption from space (called PortWatch).

Projects

Publications

Verschuur, J., Murgatroyd, A., Vittis, Y., Mosnier, A., Obersteiner, M., Godfray, C. and Hall, J. (2024) “The impacts of polycrises on global grain availability and prices”, Research Square.

Verschuur, J., Koks, E. and Hall, J. (2023) “Systemic risks from climate-related disruptions at ports”, Nature Climate Change, 13, pp. 804–806.

Verschuur, J., Vittis, Y., Obersteiner, M. and Hall, J. (2023) “Cost drivers of international grains and oilseeds trade”, Research Square.

Adshead, D., Paszkowski, A., Gall, S., Peard, A., Adnan, M., Verschuur, J. and Hall, J. (2023) “A high-resolution spatial analysis of climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes”, Research Square.

Becher, O., Pant, R., Verschuur, J., Mandal, A., Paltan, H., Lawless, M., Raven, E. and Hall, J. (2023) “A Multi‐Hazard Risk Framework to Stress‐Test Water Supply Systems to Climate‐Related Disruptions”, Earth’s Future, 11(1).

Verschuur, J., Koks, E. and Hall, J. (2023) “Systemic risks from climate-related disruptions at ports”, Research Square.

Verschuur, J., Koks, E. and Hall, J. (2022) “Ports’ criticality in international trade and global supply-chains.”, Nature communications, 13(1), p. 4351.

Verschuur, J., Pant, R., Koks, E. and Hall, J. (2022) “A systemic risk framework to improve the resilience of port and supply-chain networks to natural hazards”, Maritime Economics and Logistics, 24(3), pp. 489–506.

Verschuur, J., Koks, E. and Hall, J. (2021) “Global economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdown measures stand out in high-frequency shipping data”, PLOS ONE, 16(4).

Verschuur, J., Koks, E. and Hall, J. (2021) “Observed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade”, Nature Human Behaviour, 5, pp. 305–307.