Bas W. Borsje
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Salt marshes for flood risk reduction
Quantifying long-term effectiveness and life-cycle costs
The sandy seabed of shallow coastal shelf seas displays morphological patterns of various dimensions. The seabed also harbors a rich ecosystem. Increasing pressure from human-induced disturbances necessitates further study on drivers of benthic community distributions over mor ...
Stem breakage of salt marsh vegetation under wave forcing
A field and model study
One of the services provided by coastal ecosystems is wave attenuation by vegetation, and subsequent reduction of wave loads on flood defense structures. Therefore, stability of vegetation under wave forcing is an important factor to consider. This paper presents a model which ...
Quantifying Bed Level Change at the Transition of Tidal Flat and Salt Marsh
Can We Understand the Lateral Location of the Marsh Edge?
Bed level dynamics at the interface of the salt marsh and tidal flat have been highlighted as a key factor connecting the long-term biogeomorphological development of the marsh to large-scale physical forcing. Hence, we aim to obtain insight into the factors confining the loca ...
This paper aims to fundamentally assess the resilience of salt marsh-mudflat systems under sea level rise. We applied an open-source schematized 2D area model (Delft3D) that couples intertidal flow, wave-action, sediment transport, geomorphological development with a populatio ...
Corrigendum to “Stem breakage of salt marsh vegetation under wave forcing
A field and model study” [Estuar. Coast Shelf Sci. 200 (2018) 41–58] (S0272771417303918) (10.1016/j.ecss.2017.09.028))
Assessing safety of nature-based flood defenses
Dealing with extremes and uncertainties
Vegetated foreshores adjacent to engineered structures (so-called hybrid flood defenses), are considered to have high potential in reducing flood risk, even in the face of sea level rise and increasing storminess. However, foreshores such as salt marshes and mangrove forests a ...
The aim of this paper is to optimize power cable routing in a wind farm based on the expected morphological behaviour in the design lifetime of an offshore wind farm. Up to now methods to optimize cable route layout in offshore wind farms are only based on a flat seabed and do ...
Nature-based flood protection
The efficiency of vegetated foreshores for reducing wave loads on coastal dikes
This paper analyses the effect of vegetation on wave damping under severe storm conditions, based on a combination of field measurements and numerical modelling. The field measurements of wave attenuation by vegetation were performed on two salt marshes with two representative ...
Traditionally, protection of the coastal area from flooding is approached from an engineering perspective. This approach has often resulted in negative or unforeseen impacts on local ecology and is even known to impact surrounding ecosystems on larger scales. In this paper, th ...