Environmental crisis, sectoral versus integral: The agency of change: Dialogue

Today we experience and acknowledge the nexus of ecology, culture and politics as a moving objective, defined by local realities placed within global developments. Large-scale change is no longer a distant probability but an approaching condition, which forces us to accept instability and envision sustainability transitions as the ground of...

The Impact of Historical Geography and Agricultural Land Development Processes on Wetland Restoration Methods Used to Create Ecological Networks: A Comparison of Japan and the Netherlands

In the Osaka area in the 1880s, rice was grown mostly in dry fields in upland areas, and a few paddy fields were situated on the natural wet landforms along the major rivers and streams on the Osaka Plain. As the area developed, dry fields became irrigated, and the lowland fields were filled and converted to urban land uses. For the Osaka city...

Rhine

The territorial system of the Rhine-Meuse- Scheldt Delta, located between the Netherlands and Belgium, is characterised by the omnipresence of water in different environments. From the North Sea coast to the delta estuaries, this territorial system is formed by the confluence of three major rivers from northwest Europe: the Rhine, the Meuse and...

The interaction between port and delta: The case of Kaohsiung

Comparative assessment of the vulnerability and resilience of 10 delta cities

In this collaborative project of the Delta Alliance a framework for delta assessment is proposed, building on the work done for the Aquaterra 2009 conference in Amsterdam and elaborating recent recommendations of the World Estuary Alliance conference (hosted by WWF in Shanghai, June 2010) regarding the development of a worldwide assessment of...

Modeling of a mixed?load fluvio?deltaic system

Present?day observations and classical classification schemes of alluvial deltas address feeder channel dynamics and multiple sediment fractions. However, high?resolution physics?based mathematical models have not been applied to address formation of both fluvio?deltaic links (channels) and nodes (diffluences and confluences), and their...

Dutch Lowlands: Morphogenesis of a Cultural Landscape

The Dutch delta is a reclamation landscape. It has undergone several transformations since the Middle Ages to become an inhabitable, beautiful and unique cultural landscape. Many factors that determine the spatial quality of the future urban landscape are directly connected with the formal properties of the polder landscape of the Dutch lowlands...

DELTA 2000: Inventarisatie huidige situatie Deltawateren

Het Zuidelijke Deltagebied is een uniek gebied waar water centraal staat. De karakteristieke eigenschappen van de watersystemen vormen het visitekaartje van de regio. Dit is een visitekaartje ingekleurd met zowel internationaal erkende natuurwaarden als met economische belangrijke sectoren als zeevaart en schelpdiervisserij en recreatie. Water...

Sustainable development of deltas: An international conference

PREFACE Prince Claus of The Netherlands PROGRAMME • Contents • Introduction by Anne van Urk • Conference programme • Characteristics of the delta countries SUMMARIES OF KEYNOTES Future role and position of Public Works (Gerrit Blom) Sustainable development of deltas (lsmael Serageldin) The bank's approach to sustainable development of deltas:...

Climate change impact on the deltas of Ebro, Po and Rhone: Conceptual models for coastal fringes’ response

All the Mediterranean Dehas are submitted to a physical regression of their coastal fringes and dominated by the wave action because of the decreased water and sediment discharges, if compared to previous stages of their histories. The decrease of the discharges is a consequence of water and solid retention and deviation in the continental...

Impact of sea-level rise in a Mediteranean delta: The Ebro delta cast

In anticipation of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study on the impact of climatic change on the Ebro Delta preliminary results are here presented of the response of the outer delta coast to present and future relative sea-level rise. Due to the absence of observations and predictions of regional effects such as subsidence, it is only...

Aspects of sediment- and morphodynamics of subtidal deposits of the Oosterschelde (Netherlands)

The present thesis consists of five articles, in all of which links are established between sedimentological aspects of sediments - mostly below the low-water 'line - in the Oosterschelde and either large- or small-scale morphological changes. Large morphological changes and associated movements of sediment which occur in the tidal system of the...

Algemeen verzamelrapport

Verzamelrapport met samenvattingen (incl. samenvattende tekening) van alle onderzoeksrapporten van de de Directie Benedenrivieren van Rijkswaterstaat over de periode 1929-1953 (tot en met januari van dat jaar). Alhoewel de focus ligt op het deltagebied, zijn er ook rapportsamenvattingen van onderzoek in de Waddenzee, langs de Hollandse kust, in...