Protecting the south-west of the Netherlands against flood using an adaptive design approach

The Netherlands is world famous when it comes to coastal defence. The world is always changing, therefore the Netherlands, together with many countries, has to adapt constantly to the climate. This constant change means that in particular the coastline of the Netherlands requires extra attention because of the uncertainty of sea level rise. The...

Perspectives on the IJssel: Widening solution space in riverine climate adaptation

The current approach in riverine climate adaptation strategies aims to accommodate all functionalities of rivers into one singular riverbed, but runs into the limitations of an integrated spatial system. The research shows that the different functionalities of rivers, i.e. the different riverine regimes, in synchronization will lead to a decline...

Long-Term Adaptive Flood Risk Management: Investing in coastal protection and stormwater management under deep uncertainty

Flood risk management is the process of analysing, assessing and (if required) reducing flood risks, in terms of economic costs and affected population or loss of life. The analysis is performed through a probabilistic approach in which the factors are represented by a probability distribution function to address uncertainties. However, relevant...

Dynamic Adaptive Development Pathways: A participatory planning approach to support sustainable development under uncertain future conditions

Rural communities in drylands of low-income countries represent highly vulnerable societies that are<br/>often strongly affected by the increased climate variability (UNDP, 2007/2008). Additionally to climatic<br/>uncertainty, local households have also to cope with strongly fluctuating political and economic<br/>conditions, which are difficult...

New Netherlands: Towards transitional flood risk management anticipating to extreme future sea level rise scenarios

Sea levels are rising globally and the melting Antarctic ice sheet is attributed to be the primary contributor. Due to the deep uncertainty of the causal representative carbon pathways, the plausible range of sea levels rise varies between 0,26 - 2,43 m for 2100 and 0,50 - 15,52 m for 2300. To address deep uncertainty, decision making methods...

Latha's Socio-Hydrology: understanding and modelling the interactions between hydrological processes and human activities that cause urban flooding in the Latha Township, Yangon, Myanmar