Katendrecht, Rotterdam: Taking a Walk on the Gentrified Side

Rotterdams schiereiland Katendrecht wordt tegenwoordig minder in één adem genoemd met haar notoire verleden als Chinatown of red-light district dan met schijnbaar alomtegenwoordige tendensen van gentrificatie. Hoe voorbij de polarisatie te kijken in dit soort debatten? Wandelingen met (oud-)buurtbewoners brengen je – letterlijk en figuurlijk –...

Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified: How Rotterdam’s Interwar Amusement Street, the Schiedamsedijk, Became a Safe Mirror Image of Itself

This chapter develops a layered analysis of the Schiedamsedijk, Rotterdam’s interwar amusement street. It links the street’s split socio-cultural character to that of port cities in general, and investigates this along the lines of a similar divide in perceptions of safety and security. Based on an historical bird’s-eye view of the pleasure area...

The Maritime Mindset: A Conceptual and Practical Exploration of Mapping Port Cities

Centuries of trade have left their traces in the culture and society of port cities. This paper explores the usefulness of the concept “maritime mindset” to recognize these traces, and analyses it from different disciplinary perspectives. In the second part, it proposes the practice of “deep mapping” as a methodology of identifying and...

Beneficial use of dredged sediment to enhance salt marsh development by applying a ‘Mud Motor’: evaluation based on monitoring

Bij de haven van Harlingen is een innovatieve methode beproefd voor hergebruik van baggerslib om de ontwikkeling van een kwelder te stimuleren: de slibmotor. Bij een slibmotor wordt baggerspecie als een semi-continue bron van sediment zo dicht mogelijk bij een kwelder verspreid om vervolgens door natuurlijke transportprocessen het sediment af te...

Beneficial use of dredged sediment to enhance salt marsh development by applying a ‘Mud Motor’

We test an innovative approach to beneficially re-use dredged sediment to enhance salt marsh development. A Mud Motor is a dredged sediment disposal in the form of a semi-continuous source of mud in a shallow tidal channel allowing natural processes to disperse the sediment to nearby mudflats and salt marshes. We describe the various steps in...

Limited seed retention during winter inhibits vegetation establishment in spring, affecting lateral marsh expansion capacity

Coastal systems worldwide deliver vital ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and coastal protection. Effectivity of these ecosystem services increases when vegetation is present. Understanding the mechanisms behind vegetation establishment in bio-geomorphic systems is necessary to understand their ability to recover...

Sustainable development of land reclamations and shorelines: Full-scale experiments as a driver for public-private innovations

With 80% of the world's population living in lowland urban areas by 2050, sea levels gradually rising and societal demands on the quality of living increasing, sustainable development of coastal zones becomes increasingly urgent as well as complex. Modern strategies for the design and implementation of measures for infrastructure development,...

Habitattoets: Effecten bagger- en stortactiviteiten t.b.v. havenonderhoud in Zeeuwse wateren

Modelling Floodplain Biogeomorphology

Understanding the interactions between the ecosystem and the morphology of river floodplains, i.e. floodplain biogeomorphology, is becoming increasingly important in view of modern river management and climate change. There is a need for predictive models for the natural response of river floodplains to hydraulic measures and river...

Cyclic floodplain rejuvenation

A new strategy based on floodplain measures for both flood risk management and enhancement of the biodiversity of the river Rhine.

Eco-morphodynamics of the seafloor

Veerkracht in het Nederlandse kustbeleid: Operationalisering en toepassing van de morfologische veerkrachtmeter

RESTWES Ecology: Use of remote sensing for classification of intertidal areas and preliminary ecological assessment of the disposal of tunnel boring material in the Western Scheldt

Definitiestudie morfologische dynamiek Westerschelde

A fuzzy system to assess the effects of climate change on the ecosystem of the Wadden Sea: NOP II

Verspreiding dolfijnen

Een overzicht is gemaakt van de waarnemingen van dolfijnen tijdens de vogels/zoogdiertellingen op het NCP. In dit document staan uitgewerkt: Witsnuitdolfijn, Tuimelaar, Bruinvis, Zeehond, Witflankdolfijn, Witsnuit, Dolfijn.