Projects

By working into 18 projects along five themes, we investigated how to reinforce flood defences faster and cheaper while considering the legal and governance aspects of the implementation to:

The A and E themes integrate the findings of the other All-Risk themes into the overall risk framework and the implementation cases.

Improve the risk assessment by reducing the uncertainty of the estimated flood probabilities (theme A) through the understanding of the spatial and temporal hydraulic loads (theme B), subsoil characteristics (theme C), and the strength of flood defences (theme D).

Evaluate the design of innovative reinforcement measures throughout entire dike sections for improving the ecological benefits and landscape utilization (themes A to D).

Develop legal and governance arrangements that clarify responsibilities and legal rights of local stakeholders to support the implementation (theme E).

Explore the full list below to read a summary of each project! We gladly welcome your input and interest in taking the outcomes into practice.

A) Risk Framework

A1) Life-cycle performance

A2) Shared-use of flood defences

A3) Spatial adaptation in coastal environments

A4) Dike reliability analysis

B) Dynamics in Hydraulic Loads

B1) Foreshore ecosystems management

B2) Wave propagation over foreshores

B3) Large-scale uncertainty in river water levels

C) Heterogeneity in Subsoil

C1) Subsurface related dike failure mechanisms

C2) Groundwater-related dike safety

C3) Geophysical measurements of the subsoil

D) Reliability of Flood Defences

D1) Residual dike resistance

D2) Time dependency and interactions

D3) Incorporating past performance

D4) Overtopping flow and cover erosion

D5) Berms and roughness elements

D6) Modeling of sheet pile reinforced dikes in organic soils

E) Law, Governance and Implementation

E1) Legal aspects of implementation

E2) Cross-sector collaboration

E3) Understanding knowledge arrangements