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Brackel, A.K.C. (author)Brackish waters can be found in transition zones between freshwater rivers and saltier seas. These dynamic coastal landscapes harbor multiple functions such as housing, agriculture, nature, and industry. Because of climate change, existing borders between fresh and saline water - and between land and water - are becoming contested. Extreme...doctoral thesis 2024
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Mostert, E. (author)In the project Heritage uncovered; Tow barge canals in a water management context, the future value of tow barge canals for climate adaptation has been studied. The project focused on the area between the cities Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam and Gouda, with a surface area of km2, and the tow barge canals the Vliet, the Schie, the Gouwe and...report 2024
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Mostert, E. (author)In het project Erfgoed onthult; Trekvaarten binnen het waterverband is gekeken naar de toekomstwaarde van trekvaarten voor klimaatadaptatie. Het project richt zich specifiek op het gebied tussen de steden Leiden, Den Haag, Delft, Rotterdam en Gouda met de trekvaarten de Vliet, de Schie, de Gouwe en de Oude Rijn. Tot het jaar 900 was dit gebied...report 2024
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Shahverdi, Amir Farbod (author), Mostafavi, F. (author), Roodkoly, Sogand Haghighat (author), Zomorodian, Zahra Sadat (author), Homayouni, Hoda (author)As the current environmental crisis and depletion of our energy resources are pushing the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry toward the design and construction of High-Performance (HP) buildings, new organizational and technological methods of practice, such as Integrated Design Process (IDP) and Building Information...journal article 2024
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Hoepers, Taiane Regina (author), Leithold, Juliana (author), Monteiro, Michel Marques (author), Corzo Perez, Gerald A. (author), Fernandes, Cristovão V. Scapulatempo (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author), Santos, Daniel Costa dos (author)In response to pressing global challenges like climate change, rapid population growth, and an urgent need for sustainable infrastructure, cities face an immediate and crucial necessity to transition swiftly toward an integrated approach to managing urban water resources. This shift is not merely an option but an imperative, driven by the...journal article 2024
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Segovia Castillo, P. (author), Puig, Vicenc (author), Duviella, Eric (author)This article presents the design of a control strategy for the Calais canal, a navigation canal located in a lowland area in northern France that is affected by tides. Moreover, the available actuators are discrete-valued and the hierarchy of operational objectives is time-varying. All these circumstances render water level regulation of the...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Zhenya (author), Mao, Jia (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)In response to the growing global demand for clean and sustainable energy solutions, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have emerged as vital components in diverse decarbonization strategies. Despite their increasing importance, a comprehensive synthesis of recent advancements, challenges, and future prospects in thermal and water...journal article 2024
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Sugano, Keisuke (author), Lu, Simo (author), Hooimeijer, F.L. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Within the global transition to sustainable urban water management, Dutch polder cities are also contemplating revitalising their water traditions. One of the keys to this task is to integrate water management into urban design, which is explored but not yet practically instrumentalized in the urban design process. This article introduces the...journal article 2024
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Annor, F.O. (author)The importance of small reservoirs for the livelihoods of people in the Upper East Region of Ghana cannot be over-emphasized. They are used for many purposes which include fishing, livestock watering, construction, irrigation, recreation, drinking water, and other domestic uses. The reservoirs were built most often close to communities to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Hein, C.M. (author), Harteveld, Maurice (author), De Martino, P. (author), Hanna, J.M.K. (author), Tabakovic, M. (author), Donkor, C.E. (author)This blog contribution supports the Urban Archipelago expo at Nieuwe Instituut (NI) in Rotterdam, designed to consist of four elements: a map, a view, a model, and a series of films that depicted a future of living with water, as well as a booklet that documented student work. The expo has been part of the Water Cities Rotterdam, which opened...report 2023
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Li, Bin (author), Zheng, Yi (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Xu, Peng (author), Pande, S. (author), Sivapalan, Murugesu (author)Groundwater depletion has become increasingly challenging, and many cities worldwide have adopted drastic policies to relieve water stress due to socioeconomic growth. Located on the declining aquifer of the North China Plain, Beijing, for example, has developed plans to limit the size of the city’s population. However, the effect of...journal article 2023
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Nieuwenhuis, E.M. (author), de Bruijn, J.A. (author), Cuppen, Eefje (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author)Urban water systems worldwide need integrated, cross-sectoral innovations to anticipate developments like climate change and population growth. Development and implementation of such innovations is challenging due to the operational and sectoral mindset of organizations in which these innovations take place. This study uses the concept of...journal article 2023
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Meng, Meng (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author)Researchers and policymakers have long called for a collaborative governance process for climate adaptation and flood resilience. However, this is usually challenging when urban planning is supposed to be integrated with water management. Using the Chinese city of Guangzhou as a case study, this study explores the long-term disadvantaged...journal article 2023
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Yalew, S. G. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Tran, N.B. (author), Michailovsky, C. I.B. (author), Salvadore, E. (author), Borgomeo, E. (author), Karimi, P. (author), Pareeth, S. (author), Seyoum, S. D. (author), Mul, M. L. (author)Open-access remote sensing products provide data for transboundary water management. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the applications, uncertainties and implications of these remote sensing data products in the context of transboundary water management. Focusing on different stages within the transboundary cooperation...journal article 2023
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Ko, N.T. (author)Freshwater is a finite resource. It offers goods and services of fundamental importance for the development of human societies. In the developing countries, water-related infrastructure developed rapidly, which will bring prosperity to an impoverished country but also risks compromising the sustainability of the environment. The scarcity of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Bhambhani, A. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Resource recovery solutions are an essential part of a sustainable water sector. Sustainability of these solutions needs to be analysed to assess, compare and optimize them. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is the most commonly used framework for sustainability assessment. This review paper discusses three critical characteristics of...journal article 2022
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Timmerman, Jos G. (author), de Vries, S. (author), Berendsen, Monique (author), van Dokkum, Ronald (author), van de Guchte, Cees (author), Vlaanderen, Niels (author), Broek, Emilie (author), van der Horst, Aart (author)Representatives from 14 countries worldwide worked together on improving their monitoring and ultimately their water management to reach the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 goals by 2030, thereby testing the Information Strategy Model (ISM). This model is developed to support identifying the need for information for water management. In...journal article 2022
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Rocco, Roberto (author), Newton, C.E.L. (author)The Summer School Planning & Design for the Just City takes place every July at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Bouwkunde) of the Delft University of Technology. The school is organised by the Centre for the Just City. It is a partnership between Bouwkunde and the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management of the TU...report 2022
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Kipyegon Bosuben, David (author), Wehn, Uta (author), van der Zaag, P. (author)Access to accurate and trusted data for transboundary water management is important but not always sufficiently appreciated. Based on the Lake Victoria water levels decline, this technical note demonstrates that when a water crisis unfolds, tensions can arise because of absence of relevant data and uncertainty over data that are available....journal article 2022
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Cristiano, Elena (author), Annis, Antonio (author), Apollonio, Ciro (author), Urru, Salvatore (author), Pelorosso, Raffaele (author), Francipane, Antonio (author), Hoes, O.A.C. (author), Klapwijk, Friso (author), Nardi, Fernando (author)Green roofs have been widely recognized as sustainable nature-based solutions to mitigate floods in urban areas, which, in the last decades, are increasing due to the combination of intense worldwide urbanization and climate change. Besides flood mitigation, green roofs provide additional benefits for the urban environment (e.g., reducing the...journal article 2022