Effectiveness of Mangroves in Flood Risk Reduction

The risk of flood risk is increasing with global trends such as rising sea levels, land subsidence, increasing populations in coastal areas and economic growth. Traditional solutions to reduce flood risk are a levee or a dam; however, the research on hydraulic engineering is increasingly promoting nature-based solutions for flood protection....

Interaction between the failure mechanisms backward erosion piping and slope instability: Identification and quantification of interactions between failure mechanisms of a levee

With the shift of the safety standards for levees from exceedance probability (standard 1996) to flooding probability (new standard), the part of the levee failure process after the initial occurrence of a failure mechanism becomes more important for the calculation of the strength and thus, reliability of the levee cross-section. Interactions...

Mass stabilisation near regional flood defences: A technical feasibility study into the application of mass stabilisation for improving the inward macro-stability of regional flood defences

Reinforcing levees with traditional methods is becoming more difficult in the Netherlands. Often there is a lack of space near the levee or it is desired that the landscape is maintained. Because of this, alternative methods for reinforcing levees are still sought after (CUR-commissie C141, 2007). In this study, the technical feasibility of a...

Cost-effective levee design for cases along the Meuse river including uncertainties in hydraulic loads

After the flood of 1993 and 1995 in the Netherlands, flood risks in Limburg became an important discussion. Each flood defence system along the river Meuse needs to be provided with a safety level with an annual failure probability of 1/250. In the nearby future a new safety philosophy will be introduced, entailing new safety norms and...

Delfzijl 2030: WADerPROOF

Delfzijl 2030 WADerPROOF; A graduation thesis separated in two parts: [1] WADerPROOF; a spatial plan to combine the problematic of social decline and flood management in a spatial concept for the town of Delfzijl. [2] Zoet, Zout & Siel; a urban plan with the intention to use the identity of Delfzijl -the sea dike- for the urban regeneration of...