Towards climate-change proof flood risk management

Especially in low-lying deltaic areas, a sound adaptation policy is urgently needed, because relying on a global mitigation policy for climate change is way too risky. Both the Netherlands’ policy response and our research therefore focus on adaptation. In the Netherlands, climate change is given due attention for about two decades already,...

Flood risk assessment and flood risk management; An introduction and guidance based on experiences and findings of FLOODsite (an EU-funded Integrated project)

FLOODsite, from the start, had the ambition to provide conceptual and methodological guidance on how to analyze and assess flood risks as well as on how to manage flood risk and flood events. The main goal of this volume is to share FLOODsite’s view on what a comprehensive approach to flood risk assessment and management is, and what it ought to...

Text-based Knowledge Transfer; scoping

The first activity in task 29 was the scoping of the text-based knowledge transfer, which implied a review of target audiences and the drafting of a provisional table of contents with authors and/or links to task-final reports, size of chapters/ sections, etc. This report is the result of this activity, in tune with task 28. FLOODsite is...

Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management in the Rhine and Meuse River Basins

Flood risk (defined as a result of flood probability and potential damage) along Rhine and Meuse rivers is expected to increase in two ways: A. Climate change will cause a significant increase in the probability of extreme floods (according to a majority of climate change scenarios). B. The potential damage of floods (the level of investments in...

Room for the Rhine in The Netherlands: Summary of research results

Raum für den Rhein in den Niederlanden: Zusammenfassung der Untersuchungsergebnisse

Ruimte maken voor de Rijn: Samenvatting van wat het onderzoek heeft opgeleverd

Room for the Rhine branches in The Netherlands: What the research has taught us

Ruimte voor Rijntakken: Wat het onderzoek ons heeft geleerd

Uiterwaardverlaging: Gevolgen voor landbouw en natuurontwikkeling