Integrated planning and design in the Southwestern Rhine Delta

Concepts, methods and instruments for spatial planning

The Southwestern Delta of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt are the “laboratory” for the development of this method. The urgency of establishing balanced planning in this Delta has increased with the launch of the national…

Smart dike reinforcement using smooth block revetments

Dikes, levees and dams

Dozens of kilometres of dike are strengthened every year in the Netherlands. In collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat, the water management authorities and commercial parties, Deltares is looking at whether smooth block revetments are a smart solution….

Cost Benefit Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA) Planning Kit

Freshwater Scarcity

This planning kit is a novel cost benefit tool that has been developed during the studies done for the Deltaprogramme for The Netherlands and has been successfully applied there This tool enables the user  to…

Deltaplan Bangladesh

Climate Adaptation

The Bangladesh delta has more than 50 rivers and a vulnerable coastal area, and it is susceptible to flooding. Furthermore, the country faces major water-quality problems. It is going through a period of rapid economic…

Sustainable Development and Management of the Shallow Subsurface

Resilient Cities

Humankind has always been more interested in its visible surroundings, as landscape, air and water, rather than in the subsurface. In general we don’t think about the subsurface, let alone the processes that govern it…

Guideline Stresstest Urban Areas

Resilient Cities

In many cities around the world climate change leads to more frequent and more intensive rainstorms, more frequent and prolonged episodes of drought and water shortages, more heat stress, sea level rise and, indirectly, water…

SEEDS – Stimulating Enterprising Environments for Development and Sustainability

Delft3D Flexible Mesh

A major challenge facing our towns and cities today is the blight of derelict buildings and empty spaces. Such vacant and derelict sites deter investment in declining areas and pose an increasingly urgent threat to…

National Coastal Strategy, adaptive growth

Smart Delta Governance

The National Coastal Strategy presents the ‘adaptive principle’. Allowing flood defences to rise in an integrated way in line with the sea level, we will ensure that we have a safe, economically strong and appealing…

Brownfield navigator Hombre project

Europe

Brownfield (BF) regeneration needs to be addressed through a paradigm shift. Urban sprawl creates an expensive infrastructure and ever increasing commuting population; prevention and re-use of BF’s is paramount to reducing our carbon footprint while…

Climate Atlas Bangladesh

Concepts, methods and instruments for spatial planning

The partners in the foundation CAS have developed a participatory platform for adaptation planning, of which the climate atlas/touch-table is a key component . The CAS platform provides an integrated perspective on climate change by…