Projects

Changes in climate, land subsidence and demography require the development of flood resilient water systems in regional river catchments (e.g. streams in Limburg), the main Dutch rivers (IJssel, Lek, Rhine, Meuse) and the estuarine coast (Zeeland, Wadden Sea). We will investigate system-based approaches– with a specific focus on nature-based  solutions. We will assess the combined effects of river management and dike design to enable robust, ecologically friendly solutions (B1), as well as the scour hole creation during a flood wave (B2), which are important for designing robust FRM. For the estuarine coast, we focus on enhancing estuarine flood resilience by tidal foreshore-management technologies (B3). Finally, for regional catchments, research will focus on the interaction between the main and regional system (e.g. Geul and Maas, B4) and improving real time flood warning and mapping using novel technologies (B5).