Coastal zone management around the southern North Sea

The Southern North Sea is bordered by Great-Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. The North Sea basin and its adjacent shorelines are intensively used. Management of the basin and the coastal zone is therefore essential. Because of the small scale of the area, the dense population and the big scale of the interactions,...

Offshore siting of windenergy conversion systems

In a densely populated country such as The Netherlands it is almost impossible to install large numbers of large windturbines on the mainland. That was the main reason to investigate the possibilities of siting the windturbines offshore on the Dutch part of the North Sea Continental Shelf, with a further advantage of a higher windfactor. The...