Print Email Facebook Twitter “SimDelta”: Inquiry into an internet-based interactive model for water infrastructure development in The Netherlands Title “SimDelta”: Inquiry into an internet-based interactive model for water infrastructure development in The Netherlands Author Rijcken, T. Stijnen, J. Slootjes, N. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2012-03-23 Abstract The Dutch Delta Program is currently developing new government policies for flood protection and fresh water supply. Decision support instruments have to address the program’s technical and political complexity. The water system functions are highly interwoven and would benefit from an integrated approach on a national level, with decisions supported by a scientific Systems Analysis. Politically, there is a tendency towards broad participation and decentralization, and decision-making is typically supported by Conflict Resolution methods. To connect these two sides of the Delta Program’s task, an outline is presented of an internet community-based interactive instrument, preliminarily named SimDelta. On-line interactive maps and elements of serious gaming intuitively provide local Delta Program participants insight into the interaction between scenarios, problems, and solutions. SimDelta uses the internet to more frequently and efficiently present conceptual designs by architects and engineers to the Delta Program stakeholders, record their preferences, and “crowdsource” corrections, improvements and new ideas. Subject water infrastructure planningflood risk managementadaptive water managementpolicy analysisdecision supportserious gamingclimate changeuncertaintycrowdsourcing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:72bbf670-2698-4b38-9824-594ba889dbab DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/w4020295 Publisher MDPI ISSN 2073-4441 Source http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water Source Water, 4 (2), 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Files PDF rijcken_water-04-00295.pdf 2.42 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:72bbf670-2698-4b38-9824-594ba889dbab/datastream/OBJ/view