Print Email Facebook Twitter Resilience and flood risk management: A systems approach applied to lowland rivers Title Resilience and flood risk management: A systems approach applied to lowland rivers Author De Bruijn, K.M. Contributor Van Beek, E. (promotor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Date 2005-10-11 Abstract Floods along lowland rivers still cause a lot of damage and casualties although centuries of experience with flood risk management have passed. In order to reduce flood impacts and to prevent flood waves from causing disasters, the current and alternative flood risk management strategies need to be reconsidered. As a potential solution the Dutch policy makers propose to increase the resilience of systems, since resilient systems are expected to be able to cope better with disturbances such as flood waves. In their policies, however, resilience and resilient water systems are not clearly defined. Resilience has a positive connotation although it is difficult to explain exactly what the positive aspects of resilient systems for water management are. In this thesis this positive connotation of resilience was verified. The objective of this research was to establish whether applying the resilience concept facilitates the development of comprehensive strategies for flood risk management of large lowland river systems. To study the potential benefits resulting from the application of the resilience concept first resilience was defined and quantified by indicators. Secondly, case studies were carried out on the lowland parts of the Rhine, Meuse and Mekong Rivers. Subject flood risk managementresiliencelowland riversfloods To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e4c67684-e4d1-4796-b37c-0b451ebec3d4 Publisher Delft University Press ISBN 90-407-2599-3 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2005 K.M. de Bruijn Files PDF ceg_bruijn_20051011.pdf 4.46 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e4c67684-e4d1-4796-b37c-0b451ebec3d4/datastream/OBJ/view