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Economic assessment of nature-based solutions to reduce flood risk and enhance co-benefits

Ruangpan, L. (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Plavšić, Jasna (author), Curran, Alex (author), Rosic, Nikola (author), Pudar, Ranko (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author)

Flooding is expected to increase due to climate change, urbanisation, and land use change. To address this issue, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) are often adopted as innovative and sustainable flood risk management methods. Besides the flood risk reduction benefits, NBSs offer co-benefits for the environment and society. However, these co...

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Is Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Really So Expensive? An Analysis of Cascading Costs and CO₂ Emissions Reduction of Industrial CCS Implementation on the Construction of a Bridge

Subraveti, Sai Gokul (author), Rodríguez Angel, Elda (author), Ramirez, Andrea (author), Roussanaly, Simon (author)

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an essential technology to mitigate global CO2 emissions from power and industry sectors. Despite the increasing recognition of its importance to achieve the net-zero target, current CCS deployment is far behind targeted ambitions. A key reason is that CCS is often perceived as too expensive. The costs of CCS...

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Morphological wave attenuation of the nature-based flood defense: A case study from Chongming Dongtan Shoal, China

Mi, Jie (author), Zhang, Min (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Vuik, V. (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Gao, Hongkai (author), Bouma, Tjeerd J. (author)

The risk of coastal storm flooding is deteriorating under global warming, especially for the heavily urbanized deltaic cities, like Shanghai. The Nature-Based Flood Defense (NBFD), as an eco-friendly design alternative for hard infrastructure against coastal flooding, is gaining attention. Nevertheless, the vulnerability of saltmarsh due to...

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Living with legacy risk—the limits of practicalities?

Ale, B.J.M. (author), Hartford, Des N.D. (author), Slater, David H. (author)

Legacy risks from infrastructures and industrial installations often reveal themselves when a potential for failure has been discovered much later than at the stage of the design and construction of a structure. In which case, there might already be a problem with the legacy installation, or even a crisis, without having had an accident. When...

journal article 2021

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Prevention, precaution and resilience: Are they worth the cost?

Ale, B.J.M. (author), Hartford, Des N.D. (author), Slater, David H. (author)

The assumption that risk, represented as an expected value of the loss could be implied to be a measure of safety, in a cost benefit analysis, is firmly entrenched in economic risk analysis. However, this does not mean that without a marker, the value of a loss, can be established with any necessary level of certainty to make such a cost...

journal article 2021

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A techno-economic analysis of membrane-based advanced treatment processes for the reuse of municipal wastewater

Kehrein, P.A. (author), Jafari Eshlaghi, M. (author), Slagt, Marc (author), Cornelissen, Emile (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)

The objective of this paper is to compare, under Dutch market conditions, the energy consumption and net costs of membrane-based advanced treatment processes for three water reuse types (i.e. potable, industrial, agricultural reuse). The water source is municipal waste-water treatment plant effluent. Results indicate that the application of...

journal article 2021

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Concept of climate-charged airspaces: a potential policy instrument for internalizing aviation's climate impact of non-CO₂ effects

Niklaβ, Malte (author), Grewe, V. (author), Gollnick, Volker (author), Dahlmann, Katrin (author)

Approximately 50–75% of aviation's climate impact is caused by non-CO₂ effects, like the production of ozone and the formation of contrail cirrus clouds, which can be effectively prevented by re-routing flights around highly climate-sensitive areas. Here, we discuss options how to incentivize re-routing approaches and apply...

journal article 2021

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Participatory value evaluation for the evaluation of flood protection schemes

Mouter, N. (author), Koster, Paul (author), Dekker, Thijs (author)

Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new survey method which elicits citizens' preferences over the allocation of public budgets as well as their private income. In a PVE, citizens are asked to choose the best portfolio of projects given a governmental and a private budget constraint. First, this paper aligns PVE with the traditional Kaldor...

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A task-based analysis of the economic viability of low-manned and unmanned cargo ship concepts

Kooij, C. (author), Kana, A.A. (author), Hekkenberg, R.G. (author)

While successful trials for autonomously navigating ships have been conducted, commercially available unmanned cargo ships are currently unavailable. However, there are many solutions available that will allow for low-manned ship concepts long before fully unmanned ships are possible. There are many drivers for low-manned and unmanned...

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Contrasting the recommendations of participatory value evaluation and cost-benefit analysis in the context of urban mobility investments

Mouter, N. (author), Koster, Paul (author), Dekker, Thijs (author)

Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new method to assess the desirability of government projects. In a PVE, individuals select their preferred portfolio of government projects given a constrained public budget. Individuals’ preferences for (the impacts of) government projects can be determined based on these choices. The obtained...

journal article 2021

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Impact of a new metro line in amsterdam on ridership, travel times, reliability and societal costs and benefits

Brands, T. (author), Dixit, M. (author), van Oort, N. (author)

The north-south metro line in Amsterdam became operational in summer 2018, accompanied by changes to the existing bus, metro, and tram network in the city. In this paper we undertake an ex-post analysis of the transportation impacts of the network change. Using two sets of smart card transactions, of 5-6 weeks each, and corresponding...

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Hard or soft flood adaptation? Advantages of a hybrid strategy for Shanghai

Du, Shiqiang (author), Scussolini, Paolo (author), Ward, Philip J. (author), Zhang, Min (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Wang, Luyang (author), Koks, Elco (author), Diaz-Loaiza, Andres (author), Gao, Jun (author), Ke, Q. (author), Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (author)

Flood risk is expected to increase in coastal cities, particularly in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. This paper presents an integrated modeling framework to simulate changes in the flood risk in Shanghai and provide a cost-benefit analysis of multiple adaptation strategies used to reduce risk. The results show that the potential flood...

journal article 2020

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The SPPD-WRF framework: A novel and holistic methodology for strategical planning and process design of water resource factories

Kehrein, P.A. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author), Dewulf, Jo (author)

This paper guides decision making in more sustainable urban water management practices that feed into a circular economy by presenting a novel framework for conceptually designing and strategically planning wastewater treatment processes from a resource recovery perspective. Municipal wastewater cannot any longer be perceived as waste stream...

journal article 2020

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Assessing the Co-Benefits of green-blue-grey infrastructure for sustainable urban flood risk management

Alves, Alida (author), Gersonius, Berry (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Sanchez, Arlex (author)

Green-blue infrastructures in urban spaces offer several co-benefits besides flood risk reduction, such as water savings, energy savings due to less cooling usage, air quality improvement and carbon sequestration. Traditionally, these co-benefits were not included in decision making processes for flood risk management. In this work we present...

journal article 2019

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The value of travel time, noise pollution, recreation and biodiversity: A social choice valuation perspective

Mouter, N. (author), Cabral, Manuel Ojeda (author), Dekker, T. (author), van Cranenburgh, S. (author)

Environmental effects of transport projects have a weak position in Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) which might be rooted in the valuation approach adopted in the dominant style of CBA. This conventional valuation approach has been criticized for not valuing positive and negative impacts of transport projects in relation to each other and for not...

journal article 2019

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Impact of including interdependencies between multiple riverine flood defences on the economically optimal flood safety levels

Dupuits, E.J.C. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author), de Bruijn, K. M. (author)

In risk analysis of riverine flood defence systems, sections of flood defences are often considered separately, herewith ignoring their interdependence, e.g. due to the hydraulic response following dike breaches in the system. In previous studies it has been found that such interdependence can have a significant influence on flood risk estimates...

journal article 2019

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Estimation of network level benefits of reliability improvements in intermodal freight transport

Zhang, Rong (author), Jian, W. (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author)

An important problem in the assessment of reliability benefits of transport projects is that link level improvements must be translated to network level, so that they can be economically valued based on users’ trips from origins to destinations. For intermodal transport, shipments follow a chain with more than one mode. Generally, this requires...

journal article 2018

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Value of travel time as a function of comfort

Kouwenhoven, M.L.A. (author), de Jong, Gerard (author)

The value of travel time can theoretically be defined as the opportunity cost of travel minus the direct utility from spending the time during the trip. This paper searches for empirical evidence to support this formulation. We show that travellers who indicate that a shorter trip duration is useful or a longer trip duration is very...

journal article 2018

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The consumer-citizen duality: Ten reasons why citizens prefer safety and drivers desire speed

Mouter, N. (author), van Cranenburgh, S. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)

Cost-benefit analyses for transportation projects usually value impacts on safety and travel time through experiments in which consumers of mobility (‘drivers’) choose between routes which differ in safety and travel time. This approach has been criticized for failing to consider that private choices may not fully reflect citizens’...

journal article 2018

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Modeling dynamics and adaptation at operational and structural scales for the ex-ante economic evaluation of large dams in an African context

Raso, L. (author), Barbier, Bruno (author), Bader, Jean Claude (author)

Dams can produce electricity and ensure water security, but at the same time they radically alter the hydrological regime of rivers with significant consequences for the economic and environmental welfare of the region in which they are located. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is currently the most frequently used framework for the economic...

journal article 2018