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Hooimeijer, F.L. (author)
The planning culture in the Netherlands is based on the experience of building cities on very wet and soft soils. The design of Dutch polder cities was from early on a balance between land and water: building site preparation. The relation between technological development and urban development can be ordered in six phases: natural (-1000),...
journal article 2010
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Rijcken, T. (author), Christopher, D.K. (author)
The research project ‘SimDelta’ builds on novel internet technology to support the development of the Rhine-Meuse delta water infrastructure. It has three goals: education, organisation of research and design studies, and stakeholder polling. A current question is how the SimDelta technology could be made transferable to systems outside Europe,...
journal article 2013
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Van der Zaag, P. (author), Gupta, J. (author)
In the face of global change, which is characterized by growing water demands and increasingly variable water supplies, the equitable sharing of water and the drought proofing of rural livelihoods will require an increasing physical capacity to store water. This is especially true for the semiarid and dry subhumid regions of sub-Saharan Africa...
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Wen, Y. (author), Schoups, G.H.W. (author), Van de Giesen, N.C. (author)
journal article 2014
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Haasnoot, M. (author), Van Deursen, W.P.A. (author), Guillaume, J.H.A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Van Beek, E. (author), Middelkoop, H. (author)
Exploring adaptation pathways is an emerging approach for supporting decision making under uncertain changing conditions. An adaptation pathway is a sequence of policy actions to reach specified objectives. To develop adaptation pathways, interactions between environment and policy response need to be analysed over time for an ensemble of...
journal article 2014
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Vreugdenhil, H. (author), Slinger, J. (author), Thissen, W. (author), Ker Rault, P. (author)
Pilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practice-based and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and...
journal article 2010
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Bots, P.W.G. (author), Bijlsma, R. (author), Von Korff, Y. (author), Van der Fluit, N. (author), Wolters, H. (author)
When hydrological models are used in support of water management decisions, stakeholders often contest these models because they perceive certain aspects to be inadequately addressed. A strongly contested model may be abandoned completely, even when stakeholders could potentially agree on the validity of part of the information it can produce....
journal article 2011
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Pande, S. (author), Savenije, H.H.G. (author), Bastidas, L.A. (author), Gosain, A.K. (author)
Inapplicability of state of the art hydrological models due to scarce data motivates the need for a modeling approach that can be well constrained to available data and still model the dominant processes. Such an approach requires embedded model relationships to be simple and parsimonious in parameters for robust model selection. Simplicity in...
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Huitema, D. (author), Mostert, E. (author), Egas, W. (author), Moellenkamp, S. (author), Pahl-Wostl, C. (author), Yalcin, R. (author)
This article assesses the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-)management based on a literature review of the (water) governance literature. The adaptive (co-)management literature contains four institutional prescriptions: collaboration in a polycentric governance system, public participation, an experimental approach to resource...
journal article 2009
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De Bruijn, J.A. (author), De Bruijne, M.L.C. (author), Ten Heuvelhof, E.F. (author)
An increased focus on the concept of resilience in flood protection has led to the development of a comprehensive flood protection strategy in the Netherlands which stresses the need to provide ‘Room for the River’ rather than building dykes. But how can a resilient solution in flood protection be successfully implemented? Using insights from...
journal article 2015
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Van Leeuwen, C.J. (author), Frijns, J. (author), Van Wezel, A. (author), Van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)
Climate change, population growth and increased consumption, coupled with urbanization, are all placing increased pressure on water management. This global challenge can often best be addressed at the local level, e.g. in cities by optimizing the role of civil society. Although there are approaches for assessing the sustainability of countries...
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Haasnoot, M. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Walker, W.E. (author), Ter Maat, J. (author)
A new paradigm for planning under conditions of deep uncertainty has emerged in the literature. According to this paradigm, a planner should create a strategic vision of the future, commit to short-term actions, and establish a framework to guide future actions. A plan that embodies these ideas allows for its dynamic adaptation over time to meet...
journal article 2013
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Barreteau, O. (author), Bots, P.W.G. (author), Daniell, K.A. (author)
Participatory research relies on stakeholder inputs to obtain its acclaimed benefits of improved social relevance, validity, and actionability of research outcomes. We focus here on participatory research in the context of natural resource management. Participants’ acceptance of participatory research processes is key to their implementation....
journal article 2010
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Chen, Shiyang (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author), Verbeeck, Simon (author), Ye, Qinghua (author), Zhang, Weijun (author), Wei, Liang (author)
Integrating sustainable urban water management into the urban planning process is essential for developing water-resilient cities. To this end, the central government of the People’s Republic of China initiated the “Sponge City” programme. However, challenges and gaps exist in current urban planning practice. The operationalizable planning...
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Shahverdi, Amir Farbod (author), Mostafavi, F. (author), Roodkoly, Sogand Haghighat (author), Zomorodian, Zahra Sadat (author), Homayouni, Hoda (author)
As the current environmental crisis and depletion of our energy resources are pushing the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry toward the design and construction of High-Performance (HP) buildings, new organizational and technological methods of practice, such as Integrated Design Process (IDP) and Building Information...
journal article 2024
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Cristiano, Elena (author), Annis, Antonio (author), Apollonio, Ciro (author), Urru, Salvatore (author), Pelorosso, Raffaele (author), Francipane, Antonio (author), Hoes, O.A.C. (author), Klapwijk, Friso (author), Nardi, Fernando (author)
Green roofs have been widely recognized as sustainable nature-based solutions to mitigate floods in urban areas, which, in the last decades, are increasing due to the combination of intense worldwide urbanization and climate change. Besides flood mitigation, green roofs provide additional benefits for the urban environment (e.g., reducing the...
journal article 2022
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Roobavannan, M (author), Kandasamy, J (author), Pande, S. (author), Vigneswaran, S (author), Sivapalan, M (author)
This study is focused on the water-agriculture-environment nexus as it played out in the Murrumbidgee River Basin, eastern Australia, and how coevolution of society and water management actually transpired. Over 100 years of agricultural development the Murrumbidgee Basin experienced a “pendulum swing” in terms of water allocation, initially...
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Li, Bin (author), Zheng, Yi (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Xu, Peng (author), Pande, S. (author), Sivapalan, Murugesu (author)
Groundwater depletion has become increasingly challenging, and many cities worldwide have adopted drastic policies to relieve water stress due to socioeconomic growth. Located on the declining aquifer of the North China Plain, Beijing, for example, has developed plans to limit the size of the city’s population. However, the effect of...
journal article 2023
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Segovia Castillo, P. (author), Puig, Vicenc (author), Duviella, Eric (author)
This article presents the design of a control strategy for the Calais canal, a navigation canal located in a lowland area in northern France that is affected by tides. Moreover, the available actuators are discrete-valued and the hierarchy of operational objectives is time-varying. All these circumstances render water level regulation of the...
journal article 2024
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Nouasse, Houda (author), Horváth, K. (author), Rajaoarisoa, Lala (author), Doniec, Arnaud (author), Duviella, Eric (author), Chuquet, Karine (author)
In a global change context, governments in Europe want to promote alternative transports as inland navigation or railway instead of road transport. As example, in north of France, a shift of 20% from road transport to these alternative transport solutions is expected by 2050. Reaching this goal requires not only the delivery of new...
journal article 2016
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