The Cost of Risk Aversion: Eliciting risk preferences and re-evaluating flood protection standards in the Netherlands

Where water flows, prosperity follows.<br/><br/>Many prosperous areas around the world are situated near large bodies of water such as oceans, seas, and rivers. These bodies of water play a vital role in enhancing the prosperity of societies through various means. They provide convenient access to transportation, food, recreation, and many other...

Extreme Waves in the North Sea: Deriving extreme wave conditions applying Hierarchical Clustering and Non-Stationary Extreme Value Modelling

Coastal and offshore infrastructure must be designed to withstand extreme wave-induced loading conditions. Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) is often employed to infer probabilistic distributions that provide information about extreme design conditions. In traditional practices, EVA is performed under the assumption of stationarity. This means that...

An exploration of Landscape Identity and Flood Safety, a delta dilemma?: On the reconciliation of the anthropogenic and natural flux in the peat pasture delta landscape through Building with Nature

A sectoral flood safety approach has been the critical condition for Delta Urbanization in the Netherlands until now. But does this have to be the case for future urbanization as well? In the Dutch approach to flood safety, a dilemma appears to exist between (sectoral) flood safety on the one hand and biodiversity and flood resilience on the...

Flood Safety on Dikes with Wind Turbines

Many governments want to realize wind power, because it is a technology that promotes sustainable energy. That is why there is need for locations for wind farms (groups of wind turbines). Dikes are good locations for wind farms, because of favourable wind conditions, the absence of cultivation and the presence of road infrastructure. However,...

The SimBethel Simulator

SimBethel Educational is a board game about the flood safety of Bethel Island, California. To check if the game meets the requirements of a serious game a simulator is created with which the game developer can simulate SimBethel Educational and investigate how the game really works without playing the game a thousand times. It is explained how...

How safe is safe enough?

Disasters can never be completely ruled out. The Dutch national government has therefore committed itself to the concept of risk rather than the false promise of absolute safety. The objectives of this study were to evaluate current regulatory practices in the domains of industrial and flood safety in the Netherlands, and to formulate proposals...

Flood Risks and Safety in the Netherlands (Floris): Floris study - Full report

The purpose of the Floris Project The government considers it important that the public has a better understanding of the probability of their area being hit by a flood. The government also wants to have a clear view of the relatively weaker areas in flood protection. Other experts have, moreover, indicated that the protection against flooding...