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About Begonia Arellano Jaimerena

Begoña is an architect, landscape designer, and planner with a strong focus on Nature-based Solutions (NbS), ecosystem-based adaptation, and participatory processes to enhance resilience and reduce disaster risks. With more than a decade of professional experience, she works at Deltares on international projects tackling water- and soil- related challenges at regional and local scales.

Her expertise includes advising governments and organizations on spatial planning, NbS, and urban resilience strategies. She has supported projects and partnered with local partners in different countries across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Africa, Europe and North America, collaborating with institutions such as the World Bank, GIZ, and Resilient Cities Network. Recent work includes promoting NbS for climate and disaster resilience in Kigali, Madagascar, and Mozambique, and actively contributing to larger initiatives like the Water, Peace and Security partnership.

Begoña holds an MSc in Landscape Architecture & Planning from Wageningen University (with a minor in Disaster Studies) and is a certified architect in Chile. She co-authored the Handbook for the Implementation of Nature-based Solutions for Water Security and has published widely on NbS and urban adaptation.

Her work integrates spatial planning and ecosystem-based adaptation, directly supporting Deltares’ Moonshot 3: Healthy water and subsurface systems, by shaping more resilient built environments. Currently, Begoña is part of the LAC Team, helping define Deltares’ strategy in the region. Prior to joining Deltares, she worked as an architect in Chile, designing and implementing architecture projects across the country. Begoña speaks Spanish (native), English (fluent), and Dutch.

Projects

Publications

  1. Google Scholar Citations - Begonia Arellano Jaimerena

  2. ResearchGate - Begonia Arellano Jaimerena

  3. The efficiency of Nature-based solutions in North America: participatory research in ClimateCafe Vancouver and New Orleans

    Boogaard, F.; Arellano Jaimerena, B. (2025)

  4. Technical recommendations for the selection of Nature-based solutions in the city of Kigali. (English). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

    Arellano Jaimerena, B.; Mudahemuka, W., Ngendahayo, J., zum Felde, M. (2024)

  5. Sustainable and risk based land management – a briefing about the current state of practice and suggested future direction of travel

    DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19656.33283

    Bardos, P.; Pizzol, L.; Maring, L.; Arellano Jaimerena, B.; Norman, J.; Hellal, J.; Haxhiu, L.; Couto, N.; Derycke, V.; Loukola-Ruskeeniemi, K.; Tarvainen, T.; Kaija, J.; Crynen, J.; Baker, J. (2024)

  6. Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient Cities: Perspectives and experiences from Latin America. (2023)

    Chapter 4 - Resilient infrastructure in urban adaptation (Page 59). United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) DOI: 10.59117/20.500.11822/44437

    Arellano Jaimerena, B (2023)

  7. Closing the Implementation Gap of NBS for Water Security: Developing an Implementation Strategy for Natural Assurance Schemes

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25308-9_9

    Altamirano, M., de Rijke, H. Arellano Jaimerena, B., Nanu, F., Angulo, M., Benítez Ávila, C., Dartée, K., Peña, K., Mayor, B., Pengal, P., Scrieciu, A. (2023)

  8. Closing the Implementation Gap of Nature-based Solutions: The case of Water as Leverage - Cascading Semarang.

    Journal of Delta Urbanism, (3), 100–109. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/jdu/article/view/7306

    Arellano Jaimerena, B. (2022)

  9. Meeting financial challenge facing China's Sponge City Program (SCP)–Hong Kong as a gateway to green finance

    Nature-Based Solutions, 2, 100019. Meeting financial challenge facing China's Sponge City Program (SCP) – Hong Kong as a gateway to green finance. DOI: 10.1016/j.nbsj.2022.100019

    Chan, F. K. S., Chen, W. Y., Wang, Z., Loh, C., Thadani, D. R., Mitchell, G., Chau, P.; Altamirano, M.; Arellano Jaimerena, B.; Qi, Y.; Li, L.; Gu, X.; Zhang, F. (2022).

  10. Handbook for the Implementation of Nature Based Solutions for Water Security: guidelines for designing an implementation and financing arrangement

    DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19377.71524

    Altamirano, M.; de Rijke, H.; Basco Carrera, L.; Arellano Jaimerena, B. (2021)

  11. Strengthening Resilience through Nature-Based Solutions and Disaster-Informed Urban Planning (Vol. 1 of 2) (English). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

    Arellano Jaimerena, B.; Bergstra,E.; Pearson, R.; Wielenga,R.; Ranaivoson, S.; Ravolatsara, A.; Brolsma, R.; Driessen, T.; Rakotondramboa, M.; Rakotoarindriana,T.; Asselman, N.; Vermooten, S. Antananarivo (2020)

  12. Providing support in relation to the implementation of soil and land related Sustainable Development Goals at EU level (No. 3032).

    Wageningen Environmental Research. DOI: 10.18174/531395

    Keesstra, S. D., Muro, M., Maring, L., Arellano Jaimerena, B., van Eupen, M., Elbersen, B., ... & Markowska, A. (2020).

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