Help for Costa Rica’s Curridabat as green city

14 April 2020

Something needs to be done but the local authority also wants Curridabat to be a green city. It wants to maintain the natural river and the associated biodiversity so that, for example, it can store…

Developing flood early warning systems for the world’s tropical coasts

7 April 2020

Tropical coral reef-lined coasts have always been exposed to extreme storm impacts. Sea level rise, changes in wind and weather patterns and the widespread deterioration of coral reefs will make these small island nations even…

New approach to decisions in the complex puzzle of managing critical infrastructure

23 March 2020

Deltares and thirty parties from the civil-engineering sector shared their knowledge and current management issues in the ROBAMCI applied research programme. Fourteen cases were elaborated with the aim of seeking a balance between the quality,…

A regional study to assess the effects of sea level rise and resilience in the Caribbean

18 March 2020

Natural hazards The Caribbean region suffers major economic losses from natural hazards. This can partly be explained by the geo-physical characteristics and location of the region, affected by major natural hazards including flooding due to…

Half the world’s beaches to disappear by 2100

2 March 2020

A group of scientists from IHE Delft and Deltares, and led by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, have today published the first global projections of how sandy beaches around the world are expected to…

Aquathermal Viewer shows potentials for heat from waste and surface water

1 March 2020

Deltares has refined the results of the ‘National aquathermal potential’ study from 2018 and extended it to include small waters. These results have now been included in the Aquathermal Viewer, an interactive map that shows…

Innovative research on underwater dunes large rivers

24 February 2020

Field measurements The subject of the Nature Geoscience article is the quantification of dunes in large rivers worldwide. Van Dijk: ‘Our knowledge of the formation of dunes, sand ripples and comparable structures on riverbeds mainly…

New EU UNITED project testing multi-use of marine infrastructures

21 February 2020

Multi-use of offshore platforms in five pilots Multi-use of marine space and facilities is proposed as the more efficient and sustainable approach for business innovation and investment strategies. A range of economic and ecological productive…

€2 Million Aiming to Provide Information Services for the Fishery and Aquaculture Sectors

20 February 2020

Using available knowledge to create useful coastal information The European Union, under the Horizon 2020 programme, has granted €2 million to provide information services that offer high resolution water quality and met-ocean indicators in coastal…

Sudden changes in Europe’s society and economy by climate change: study of tipping points

4 February 2020

Impact on socio-economic system Climate change has been extensively studied in recent years and we now know that sometimes the climate can change suddenly. This is called a ‘tipping-point’. Until now, there has been no…