Assessing future flood resilience of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: A land-use modelling case study

The cities of the Global South need to become more flood resilient in light of climate change and rapid urbanisation. In this thesis, a land-use modelling case study for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region is executed on the interaction of flood risk and land use, through which future flood resilience was assessed for several urban planning...

A Floating Circular Future: Utilizing the changing landscape as a driving force to a circular economy

While attempting to find an answer to the question of how we could become sustainable and circular by 2050, we discovered that it was quite difficult to even imagine what South Holland, the Netherlands or the world, for that matter, would look like. The questions that arose quite quickly were, among others: how many people will live here then?...

Broad Channel stepping up: Architecture as a connecting element in flood resilience.

Aim of this graduation project is to improve the resilience of the Broad Channel Community against future storm surge. The design of the Broad Channel Resilience Center strengthens the community by adding social functions, educates and forms consensus for resilient living and serves a relief function after a storm surge.

Safe and Dynamic Rijnmond-Drechtsteden: Rebalance the Natural Processes and Human Interventions Through Integrated Flood Risk Management

The project explores the way of close collaboration in the field of flood risk management and spatial development. This results in strategies for the Rijnmond-Drechtsteden region on 4 levels, and a key intervention for Numansdorp.