A knowledge intervention to explore stakeholders’ understanding of a dynamic coastal nature reserve

As quantitative modelling can be used to build stakeholder understanding for management decisions, and can help build consensus (Stave, 2003), a system dynamics modelling study of the abiotic dynamics of an archetypical small estuary, the Slufter in the Netherlands is formulated. The model is used in combination with an analysis of stakeholders’...

A knowledge intervention to explore stakeholders’ understanding of a dynamic coastal nature reserve

As quantitative modelling can be used to build stakeholder understanding for management decisions, and can help build consensus (Stave, 2003), a system dynamics modelling study of the abiotic dynamics of an archetypical small estuary, the Slufter in the Netherlands is formulated. The model is used in combination with an analysis of stakeholders’...

Sustainable long term coastal protection and development based on sand nourishments

The study presents an assessment of sustainable practices for applying sand nourishments aiming long term coastal protection and development. Such concepts are applied in three study cases: Sylt (Germany), S'Abanell (Spain) and Ghanaian coast.

Ecological Engineering and Civil Engineering works

This thesis provides a survey of the research results of the relationship between on the one hand the construction, management and maintenance of civil engineering works, and on the other hand the environment, nature and landscape, with the main focus on motorways and coastal protection. The growing number and increase in size of civil...

IJvlakte: Een haalbaarheidsstudie naar kustuitbreiding bij IJmuiden

Het Noordzeekanaalgebied (NZKG) is een regio die een aantal zeer diverse economische functies in zich verenigd heeft (Luchthaven Schiphol, bedrijvenconcentratie Teleport, financiele centrum Amsterdam, havengebied, brede arbeidsmarkt). Juist deze combinatie van functies zorgt ervoor dat de regio goede kansen heeft zich verder te ontwikkelen. Dat...

Analysis of beach nourishment schemes

The erosion of a nourished beach may be conveniently described as the sum of the linear coastal retreat and a surcharge which decreases exponentially in time. Application of this model to data from eight nourishment projects in north-western Europe has shown on average only 52% of nourished volume becomes a permanent part of the coastal volume....

Coastal management in the Netherlands

Historical overview of coastal management in the Netherlands, leading to the Coastal memorandum of 1990.