Adaptive asset management for flood protection: The FAIR framework in action

Uncertainties about climate change consequences, changing societal requirements and system complexity require flood protection asset managers to continuously evaluate their asset management policies and practice to manage risk and improve the resilience of their assets. However, there are many challenges in doing this, with asset operators...

Exploring trade-offs among the multiple benefits of green-blue-grey infrastructure for urban flood mitigation

Climate change is presenting one of the main challenges to our planet. In parallel, all regions of the world are projected to urbanise further. Consequently, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities. A resulting impact is the increment of expected urban flood risk in many areas around the globe....

Assessing the Co-Benefits of green-blue-grey infrastructure for sustainable urban flood risk management

Green-blue infrastructures in urban spaces offer several co-benefits besides flood risk reduction, such as water savings, energy savings due to less cooling usage, air quality improvement and carbon sequestration. Traditionally, these co-benefits were not included in decision making processes for flood risk management. In this work we present...

Adaptation measures and pathways for flood risk in Dordrecht

In line with the Adaptive Delta Management approach of the Dutch Delta Programme, Dordrecht has developed a multi-layer safety strategy to meet the future tasking for flood risk management. This strategy puts greater emphasis on limiting the consequences of floods through spatial planning (layer 2) and emergency management (layer 3), in addition...

Assessing quick-wins to protect critical urban infrastructure from floods: Case study (three urban communities) Bangkok, Thailand

Gebiedsrapportage Eiland van Dordrecht

Voor deze dijkring is het kostenefficienter om gericht maatwerk toe te passen op de dijkvakken met de grootste risicobijdrage dan om de dijkring in zijn geheel te versterken. Voor deze oplossing is echter een differentiatie naar dijktrajecten nodig, waarbij het mogelijk is om bepaalde dijktrajecten een veel hogere norm te geven (tot Deltadijk...

Taming global flood disasters: lessons learned from Dutch experience

There is a growing international recognition that flood risk management in optima forma should be a programmed and flexible process of continuously improving management practices by active learning about the outcome of earlier and ongoing interventions and drivers of change. In the Netherlands, such a long-term, adaptive flood risk management...

Linking the city and the lake: Guaíba waterfront, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Porto Alegre had a history of connections to the waterfront of the Guaíba Lake since it was been built on the banks of the lake. But following the flood that occurred in 1941, Porto Alegre created a series of waterfront protection measures that now are perceived as cutting the city from its lakefront location. Due to this separation and length...

The identity approach for assessing socio-technical resilience to climate change: Example of flood risk management for the Island of Dordrecht

Recent EU guidance on adaptation calls for the enhancement of socio-technical resilience to climate change. However, socio-technical resilience is relatively poorly defined and this makes it difficult to apply in practice. This paper uses the concept of identity as a vehicle to advance the definition and assessment of socio-technical resilience....

The resilience approach to climate adaptation applied for flood risk

This dissertation presents a potential way forward for adaptation to climate change, termed the resilience approach. This approach takes a dynamic perspective on adaptive processes and the effects of these processes at/across different spatio-temporal scales. Experience is provided with four methods that can be used to apply the resilience...

Building adaptive capacity for flood proofing in urban areas through synergistic interventions

Few, if any urban areas are nowadays built in isolation from existing developments. Therefore, urban expansion and making existing urban areas more sustainable is a contemporary goal. There are major opportunities to do this through the ‘normal’ renewal of urban infrastructure and building stocks both now and in the future. However, significant...

Towards Sustainable Planning and Design of Stormwater Control Solutions in Brazil

Brazil is currently facing widespread problems in the urban environment associated with inadequate systems for drainage of urban stormwater runoff. The PNSB study (2000) identified that out of a total of 5507 municipalities 22% suffered from flooding in the 1998- 1999 period. The majority of problems occurred in the southern states, which have...