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Towards a robust and well-functioning Rhine River system that can sustainably provide its geo-ecosystem services

Klijn, F. (author)

The policy programme Integrated River Management (IRM) aims to anticipate climate change and to redress the negative consequences of earlier river engineering interventions. Its objective is to first and foremost ensure a well-functioning river system that can provide its essential ‘public’ geo-ecosystem services: safe discharge of floods,...

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Evaluating the distributional fairness of alternative adaptation policies: a case study in Vietnam’s upper Mekong Delta

Jafino, B.A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Klijn, F. (author)

To support equitable adaptation planning, quantitative assessments should consider the fairness of the distribution of outcomes to different people. What constitutes a fair distribution, however, is a normative question. In this study, we explore the use of different moral principles drawn from theories of distributive justice to evaluate...

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Belief-Informed Robust Decision Making (BIRDM): Assessing changes in decision robustness due to changing distributions of deep uncertainties

Ciullo, A. (author), Domeneghetti, A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), De Bruijn, K. M. (author), Klijn, F. (author), Castellarin, A. (author)

Robust Decision Making (RDM) is an established framework for decision making under deep uncertainty. RDM relies on the idea of scenario neutrality, namely that decision robustness is not affected by how scenarios are generated if these are uniformly distributed and span a sufficiently large range of future states of the world. Several authors...

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Accounting for Multisectoral Dynamics in Supporting Equitable Adaptation Planning: A Case Study on the Rice Agriculture in the Vietnam Mekong Delta

Jafino, B.A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Klijn, F. (author), Dung, Nguyen Viet (author), van Delden, Hedwig (author), Haasnoot, Marjolijn (author), Sutanudjaja, Edwin H. (author)

The need for explicitly considering equity in climate change adaptation planning is increasingly being recognized. However, evaluations of adaptation often adopt an aggregated perspective, while disaggregation of results is important to learn about who benefits when and where. A typical example is adaptation of rice agriculture in the Vietnam...

journal article 2021

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Tailored flood risk management: Accounting for socio-economic and cultural differences when designing strategies

Klijn, F. (author), Marchand, Marcel (author), Meijer, Karen (author), van der Most, Herman (author), Stuparu, Dana (author)

Climate change and socio-economic development result in increasing flood risk which challenges flood risk management policy making and practice. Each situation, however, is different and calls for not only understanding the natural context, but also the socio-economic and cultural context. Only then Flood Risk Management strategies can be...

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Efficient or Fair? Operationalizing Ethical Principles in Flood Risk Management: A Case Study on the Dutch-German Rhine

Ciullo, A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), De Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Klijn, F. (author)

Flood risk management decisions in many countries are based on decision-support frameworks which rely on cost-benefit analyses. Such frameworks are seldom informative about the geographical distribution of risk, raising questions on the fairness of the proposed policies. In the present work, we propose a new decision criterion that accounts...

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Klimaatadaptatie in het rivierengebied: Een geo-ecologisch perspectief.

Klijn, F. (author), Asselman, Nathalie (author), Mosselman, E. (author), Sperna Weiland, Frederiek (author)

Door klimaatverandering verandert het afvoerregime van onze grote rivieren. Hoogwaters worden hoger en frequenter, laagwaters lager en langduriger. Hoe we daarop reageren hangt af van hoe we klimaatverandering zien: als opgave, of als kans om onvolkomenheden aan te pakken. In dit artikel presenteren we aanzetten voor een meer geo-ecologisch...

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Accounting for the uncertain effects of hydraulic interactions in optimising embankments heights: Proof of principle for the IJssel River

Ciullo, A. (author), de Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Klijn, F. (author)

Most alluvial plains in the world are protected by flood defences, for example, embankments, whose primary aim is to reduce the probability of flooding of the protected areas. At the same time, however, the presence of embankments at one area influences hydraulic conditions of downstream areas located on the same river. These hydraulic...

journal article 2019

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Systemic flood risk management: The challenge of accounting for hydraulic interactions

Ciullo, A. (author), De Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Klijn, F. (author)

Rivers typically flow through multiple flood-protected areas which are clearly interconnected, as risk reduction measures taken at one area, e.g. heightening dikes or building flood storage areas, affect risk elsewhere. We call these interconnections 'hydraulic interactions'. The current approach to flood risk management, however, neglects...

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A framework to assess integration in flood risk management: Implications for governance, policy, and practice

Cumiskey, Lydia (author), Priest, Sally J. (author), Klijn, F. (author), Juntti, Meri (author)

Over decades the concept of integration has been promoted to enhance alignment between policy domains, and to manage trade-offs and maximize synergies across management practices. Integrated approaches have the potential to enable better outcomes for flood risk management (FRM) and society as a whole. However, achieving integration in...

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Room for Rivers: Risk Reduction by Enhancing the Flood Conveyance Capacity of The Netherlands’ Large Rivers

Klijn, F. (author), Asselman, Nathalie (author), Wagenaar, Dennis (author)

The Netherlands has just finished implementing the Room for the Rivers program along the Rhine and Meuse Rivers in response to increasing river discharges. Recently, making more room for the river is, however, being challenged for future application because the flood defenses are assessed to be too weak and will need reinforcement anyway. To be...

journal article 2018

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Robust river systems: on assessing the sensitivity of embanked rivers to discharge uncertainties, exemplified for the Netherlands' main rivers

Klijn, F. (author), Asselman, Nathalie (author), Mosselman, E. (author)

There is increasing attention for the robustness of systems, in view of more frequent and more extreme weather events. Calls to increase a system's robustness are usually motivated by the resulting reduced sensitivity to extreme events and uncertainties about their probability of occurrence. The concept has been elaborated for flood risk systems...

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Resilience in practice: Five principles to enable societies to cope with extreme weather events

de Bruijn, Karin (author), Buurman, Joost (author), Mens, Marjolein (author), Dahm, Ruben (author), Klijn, F. (author)

The concept of resilience is used by many in different ways: as a scientific concept, as a guiding principle, as inspirational ‘buzzword’, or as a means to become more sustainable. Next to the academic debate on meaning and notions of resilience, the concept has been widely adopted and interpreted in policy contexts, particularly related to...

journal article 2017

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Hydrodynamic system behaviour: Its analysis and implications for flood risk management

De Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Diermanse, Ferdinand L.M. (author), Van Der Doef, Marcel (author), Klijn, F. (author)

Knowledge on the different components of flood risk has much improved over the last decades, but research which fully takes into account not only the interactions between those components but also between different areas in a catchment or delta is still rare. Integrated analyses based on a complete system's approach at sufficiently large...

journal article 2016

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Making room for rivers: Quantification of benefits from a flood risk perspective

Asselman, Nathalie E.M. (author), Klijn, F. (author)

Since 1996, the Netherlands has adopted a flood risk management policy based on making more room for the rivers. Currently, the focus in flood risk management is being adapted again, in view of increasing societal vulnerability and foreseeable effects of climate change. In this context, the choice between making more room for the river and/or...

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Implementing new flood protection standards: Obstacles to adaptive management and how to overcome these

Klijn, F. (author), Asselman, Nathalie E.M. (author), De Kruif, Arno (author), Bloemen, Pieter J.T.M. (author), Haasnoot, M. (author)

The Netherlands is updating its flood protection, whilst fully taking into account climate change and socioeconomic development. This translates in 'anticipatory standards' which need to be met in 2050, and which apply for the then foreseen climate and economy. Whilst the government maintains to have adopted a policy of adaptive planning and...

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Doorbraakvrije dijken: Een nadere verkenning

Klijn, F. (author), Van der Doef, M. (author), Asselman, N. (author)

Tijdens een studiedag over ‘Dijken voor de toekomst’, die KvK-Thema 1 in november 2011 samen met STOWA had georganiseerd, werd duidelijk dat veel discussie over ‘praktisch doorbraakvrije’ dijken het gevolg is van verschillende percepties, mede veroorzaakt doordat op onderdelen nog kennis ontbreekt. KvK heeft gevraagd enkele van die openstaande...

report 2014

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Towards climate-change proof flood risk management

Klijn, F. (author), Kok, M. (author), De Moel, H. (author)

Especially in low-lying deltaic areas, a sound adaptation policy is urgently needed, because relying on a global mitigation policy for climate change is way too risky. Both the Netherlands’ policy response and our research therefore focus on adaptation. In the Netherlands, climate change is given due attention for about two decades already,...

report 2012

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Deltaprogramma Zoetwater: Synthese van de landelijke en de regionale knelpuntenanalyses

Klijn, F. (author), Kielen, N. (author), Franken, R. (author), Ter Maat, J. (author), Stuyt, L. (author), Van Velzen, E. (author), Werkman, W. (author)

De knelpuntenanalyse heeft betrekking op discrepanties tussen waterbeschikbaarheid en watervraag. Deze zijn gedentificeerd voor de huidige situatie en de toekomst. Daarbij is uitgegaan van de huidige inrichting van de waterhuishouding, autonome ontwikkeling van klimaat en maatschappij (zonder adaptatie aan klimaatverandering), en continuering...

report 2011

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Flood risk assessment and flood risk management; An introduction and guidance based on experiences and findings of FLOODsite (an EU-funded Integrated project)

Klijn, F. (author)

FLOODsite, from the start, had the ambition to provide conceptual and methodological guidance on how to analyze and assess flood risks as well as on how to manage flood risk and flood events. The main goal of this volume is to share FLOODsite’s view on what a comprehensive approach to flood risk assessment and management is, and what it ought to...

report 2009