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…

Bottom-up climate adaptation strategies towards a sustainable Europe (BASE)

Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways: supporting decision making under uncertainty using Adaptation Tipping Points and Adaptation Pathways in policy analysis

Deltares is making a major contribution to the improvement of the European climate adaptation policy. This includes, for example, the Bottom-up climate Adaptation Strategies for Europe (BASE), which is looking at the costs and benefits…

Shin Ulchin Nuclear Power Plants 1&2: Hydraulic verification of the cooling water system

Infrastructure for water and energy

Korea Electric Power Corporation Engineering & Construction Co., Inc (KEPCO E&C) designed the Shin Ulchin Nuclear Power Plants 1&2: “SUN 1&2”. The plants will be located North of Ulchin at the eastern part of the…

Deltaprogramme and the Adaptive Delta Management approach

Climate Adaptation

The Netherlands is the best protected delta in the world. But how can we ensure that we remain protected from high water – now and in the future – and that our supply of freshwater…