Who should do what in environmental management? Twelve principles for allocating responsibilities

In environmental management there is often discussion on the allocation of responsibilities. Such discussions can continue for a long time and can form an obstacle for effective action. In this article twelve normative principles for the allocation of responsibilities are identified, coming from three different sources: the arguments used in...

An integrated approach to flood risk management and spatial quality for a Netherlands’ river polder area

Delivering change: Towards fit-for-purpose governance of adaptation to flooding and drought

This book addresses pressing challenges of policy makers, planners and project managers in the water sector to successfully implement adaptation action. It draws on case studies about water sensitive urban design (WSUD) in Australia and the Room for the River flood protection programme in the Netherlands. The book explains a procedure for...

A programme management approach for supporting a transition to integrated flood management in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands and many other developed countries, flood management is transitioning from sectoral engineering approaches to more integrated approaches. The 2.3 billion Euro Room for the River programme plays an important role in this transition, because it is the first large scale infrastructure programme in the Netherlands that breaks with...

Working together with water: A living land builds for its future

The government asked the Delta Committee to come up with recommendations on how to protect the Dutch coast and the low-lying hinterland against the consequences of climate change. The issue is how the Netherlands can be made climate proof over the very long term: safe against flooding, while still remaining an attractive place to live, to reside...

Optimal Redesign of the Dutch Road Network

The Dutch national road network has been developed over several decades. In the past, roads were constructed according to the then current spatial and transportation planning philosophies. Because the existing road network is a result of a long process of successive developments, the question can be asked whether this network is the most...

Coal mining in the Netherlands: The need for a proper assessment

In the Netherlands several billion tonnes of mineable coal remained after closure of all mines in 1974. Mining activities in Dutch Limburg were suspended relatively early in comparison to surrounding basins, of which only DSK’s Ruhr mines are still producing. In retrospective this saved the costs of uneconomic exploitation and limited further...

The Allocation of Tasks and Competencies in Dutch Water Management: Discussions, developments and present state

This report discusses subsidiarity in Dutch water management and forms the Dutch contribution to the Water 21 Phase II report on subsidiarity. Rather than discussing the Dutch interpretations of the concept (the concept is used almost exclusively in relation to the European Union), this report discusses the substantive issue to which ...

Large-scale coastal behaviour in relation to coastal zone management

The development of coastal erosion management - addressing typical traditional erosion problems - towards coastal zone management addressing the evaluation of alternative solutions to guarantee a variety of coastal zone functions on their economic time scale - has necessitated the formulation of large-scale coastal evolution (LSCE) models. Using...

Effects of sea level rise on coastal evolution

Using the Dutch coastal evolution in the Holocene upto the present as an example and a test case, a coastal evolution concept is proposed and materialized with which shoreline position changes for different sea level rise scenarios are predicted. The (more generally applicable) model applies to (quasi-)uniform coastal stretches. It accounts for...

Kustgenese, grootschalige vorming en ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse kust, vorming en toetsing van hypotheses (hoofdrapport en 4 deelrapporten)

Hoofdstuk 1. Inleiding Naast een algemene inleiding op het projekt Kustgenese en de werkwijze binnen het projekt zijn hierin een samenvatting en de konklusies opgenomen. Hoofdstuk 2. Waargenomen kustontwikkelingen De waargenomen ontwikkeling en vorming van de kust worden hier beschreven onderscheiden naar de tijdsperioden beschouwd door de drie...

Canals and locks in the Netherlands

History of navigational canals in the Netherlands

Selected Aspects of Hydraulic Engineering: Liber Amicorum dedicated to Johannes Theodoor Thijsse, on occasion of his retirement as professor

- Biography of Johannes Theodoor Thijsse - British Hydraulic Engineering and Research - Probleme der Donau in Österreich - Évolution, depuis trente ans, de la Normalisation Internationale des Mesures de Débits en Conduite - L' Association Internationale d'Hydrologie Scientifique - Activities of Dutch Civil Engineers Abroad - Drawdown due to...