Marcel Marchand

Expert on coastal zone and flood risk management

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Dr. Marchand is an expert in the field of coastal zone management and flood risk management and has over 25 years of experience in the Netherlands and abroad. He has a scientific background as policy analyst/ecological scientist and wrote numerous papers and book contributions on flood vulnerability, tsunamis, environmental flows, coastal erosion management, coastal resilience and sea level rise. Currently he is a member of the Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).

Dr. Marchand graduated in 1982 in Biology (MSc) at Leiden University. From 1982 till 1990 he followed a scientific career in the field of environmental science. In 1990 Dr. Marchand joined Delft Hydraulics (now part of Deltares) and participated in the first Global Vulnerability Assessment for Sea Level Rise as contribution to the IPPC Working Group on Responses. He was a Lead Author on the Flood and Storm Protection Chapter of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He received his PhD at Delft Technical University on an integrated modeling approach to coastal flood vulnerability assessment.

Dr. Marchand is active as team leader or advisor for projects funded by World Bank, ADB, IADB as well as bilateral cooperation programmes on Coastal Zone Management, Adaptive Delta Management and Flood Risk Management in India, Vietnam, Barbados, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, Suriname, Egypt, Cyprus and Indonesia.

Working experience

2008 – present	Deltares	Specialist (ICZM, FRM)
1990 – 2008	Delft Hydraulics	Advisor / researcher
1984 – 1990	Leiden University	Lecturer / Scientific researcher
1983 – 1984	Rijksinstituut voor Natuurbeheer	Researcher
1982 – 1983	Leiden University	Scientific Researcher

Weather Forecasting and Early Warning (TL)

Vietnam, 2014-pres
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (coastal expert)

Bangladesh, 2014-pres
Integrated Flood Management under Climate Change (TL)

India, 2014-pres
Cumulative Impact Assessment of small hydropower dams (TL)

Vietnam, 2012-2013
Post Disaster Needs Assessment (TL)

Philippines, 2012
Flood vulnerability assessment (DTL)

Cambodia, 2011
Preparation of ICZM Plan, consultant

Suriname, 2009
CONSCIENCE project on coastal erosion (EU RTD), coordinator

Europe, 2007-2010
Tsunami vulnerability assessment (Aceh), consultant

Indonesia, 2006
Environmental flow assessment Yellow River, consultant

China, 2004

Mekong Delta: living with water, but for how long?

2014
Marchand, M., Dieu Quang Pham & Trang Le. J. Built Environment. Vol. 40. Issue 2.pp. 230-244.
Marchand, M., S & D. Vatvani. The 2004 Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013

2013
Marchand, M., S & D. Vatvani. The 2004 Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013
Coastal Storm. In: Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Management and Reduction.

2012
Jonkman, B., H. Gerritsen & M. Marchand. Chapter 19. Edited by B. Wisner, J. C. Gaillard and I. Kelman. Routledge. Oxon.
Management of the Sustainable Development of Deltas

2011
Van der Most H and M. Marchand. In: Wolanski E and McLusky DS (eds.) Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Vol 11, pp. 179–204. Waltham: Academic Press.
Concepts and science for coastal erosion management – an introduction to the CONSCIENCE Framework

2011
Marchand, M, A. Sanchez-Arcilla, M. Ferreira, J. Gault, J. A. Jimenez, M. Markovic, J. Mulder, L. van Rijn, A. Stanica, W. Sulisz, J. Sutherland.. J. Ocean & Coastal Management 54, pp. 859-866.
Modelling Coastal Vulnerability. Design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods.

2009
Marchand, M. PhD thesis. Delft University of Technology.
Reframing integrated water management for urbanized deltas: a combined approach of spatial planning and governance to analysis and design.

2009
Marchand, M. & T. Ruijgh – van der Ploeg (2009). Paper presented at the Conference People and the Sea, (V): living with uncertainty and adapting to change July 9th- 11th 2009, Amsterdam.
Damage and casualties modelling as part of a vulnerability assessment for tsunami hazards: a case study from Aceh, Indonesia.

2009
Marchand, M., J. Buurman, A. Pribadi, A. Kurniawan. J. Flood Risk Management Vol. 2 pp. 120-131.
Catchment2Coast - A systems approach to coupled river-coastal ecosystem science and management.

2009
Monteiro, P.M.S. & M. Marchand. Deltares Select Series, vol. 2. IOS Press.
Flood risk management: experiences from the Schelde Estuary.

2008
Marchand, M., K.M. de Bruijn, M.J.P. Mens, J.H. Slinger, M.E. Cuppen, J. Krywkow & A. van der Veen. Proc. Int. Conference FLOODrisk 2008, 30 September – 2 October, Oxford.
Differential vulnerability in coastal communities: evidences and lessons learned from two deltas.

2008
Marchand, M. Proc. Conference Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, London, 2 & 3 July 2008. (Ed. D. Proverbs, C.A. Brebbia & E. Penning-Rowsell, WIT Press, Southampton). pp. 283-293.
Promoting sustainable resilience in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

2006
Marchand, M. Proc. Conference Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, London, 2 & 3 July 2008. (Ed. D. Proverbs, C.A. Brebbia & E. Penning-Rowsell, WIT Press, Southampton). pp. 283-293.
Chapter in book ‘Managing Coastal Vulnerability’,

2006
Winchester, P., M. Marchand & E. Penning-Rowsell. L. McFadden, R. Nicholls & E. Penning-Rowsell (Editors), Elsevier.
Increasing flood risk and wetland losses due to global sea-level rise: regional and global analyses.

1999
Nicholls, R., F. Hoozemans & M. Marchand. In: Global Environmental Change. Vol. 9, suppl. Issue 1999, pp. S69-S87. Pergamon.
Policy Analysis as a tool for habitat restoration: a case study of a Danube River Floodplain, Hungary.

1995
Marchand, M., E.C.L. Marteijn & P. Bakonyi: Water Sci. Technol. 31/8, pp. 179-186.

2011- present	Member	the Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
1980 – present	Member	Working group Landscape Ecology in the Netherlands

Marcel Marchand

Working experience

Weather Forecasting and Early Warning (TL)

Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (coastal expert)

Integrated Flood Management under Climate Change (TL)

Cumulative Impact Assessment of small hydropower dams (TL)

Post Disaster Needs Assessment (TL)

Flood vulnerability assessment (DTL)

Preparation of ICZM Plan, consultant

CONSCIENCE project on coastal erosion (EU RTD), coordinator

Tsunami vulnerability assessment (Aceh), consultant

Environmental flow assessment Yellow River, consultant

Mekong Delta: living with water, but for how long?

Marchand, M., S & D. Vatvani. The 2004 Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013

Coastal Storm. In: Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Management and Reduction.

Management of the Sustainable Development of Deltas

Concepts and science for coastal erosion management – an introduction to the CONSCIENCE Framework

Modelling Coastal Vulnerability. Design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods.

Reframing integrated water management for urbanized deltas: a combined approach of spatial planning and governance to analysis and design.

Damage and casualties modelling as part of a vulnerability assessment for tsunami hazards: a case study from Aceh, Indonesia.

Catchment2Coast - A systems approach to coupled river-coastal ecosystem science and management.

Flood risk management: experiences from the Schelde Estuary.

Differential vulnerability in coastal communities: evidences and lessons learned from two deltas.

Promoting sustainable resilience in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Chapter in book ‘Managing Coastal Vulnerability’,

Increasing flood risk and wetland losses due to global sea-level rise: regional and global analyses.

Policy Analysis as a tool for habitat restoration: a case study of a Danube River Floodplain, Hungary.

Activities