Dossier
Flooding
The amount of extreme rainfall and its severity is increasing in the Netherlands and Western Europe. What is the reason for this and what can we do to limit nuisance? In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of research on flooding.
Climate change is not only rising global temperatures, it also alters rainfall patterns. In the Netherlands we find that there are more and more floods by heavy rain. In urban areas, streets are more often flooded and it provides the necessary nuisance.
Changing rainfall patterns
Wageningen University & Research studies the causes of heavy rainfall and is looking for solutions to this phenomenon. For example, more green spaces in the city ensures that water can be drained faster into the ground. Storage of water is also important, because not only the number of heavy rains is increasing, also there are longer periods of drought.
News about flooding
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Draining and storing water due to climate change
- The Netherlands is designed for the rapid draining of superfluous rainwater. The dryer summers that result from climate change, however, also call for... -
Multi-annual research on climate adaptive planning for elevated sandy soils
- The Netherlands has seen yet another dry springtime, while lately the rain that does fall tends to pour down in peak showers. Elevated sandy soils in... -
Near-daily discharge estimation in high latitudes from Sentinel-1 and 2: A case study for the Icelandic Þjórsá river
- An article of Joost Brombacher, Johannes Reiche, Roel Dijksma, Adriaan Teuling: Near-daily discharge estimation in high latitudes from Sentinel-1 and...
News 2012-2019
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Estimating river delta change with Google Earth
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Increase in extremes calls for intensive river monitoring
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Prediction of floods and droughts is an effective measure for adapting to climate change
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Adaptive circular cities
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Fascinated by algorithms and downpours
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Climate-proof planning for flood-prone areas
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Probabilistic framework to estimate flood risk
Projects about flooding
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Towards Water Smart Cities
Cities around the world face great challenges with water. We have to rethink the way we deal with water in our cities and need to (re)design cities... -
RichWaterWorld - Climate Proof Water Management in green transition zones between urban and rural areas
Green transition zones between urban and rural areas have potential for climate adaptation strategies. The project RichWaterWorld explores the... -
Climate atlas for national use
Are we able to build here without a risk of flooding? -
Blue Green Dream
The Adaptation Support Tool supports nature-based climateproofing of urban environments, with a co-design approach and quantified output. The tool was...
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Publications about flooding
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The Netherlands’ need for a nature-based future News 15 April 2021 Europe Climate Resilience Resilient cities Flood management
The Netherlands’ need for a nature-based future News 15 April 2021 Europe Climate Resilience Resilient cities Flood management, Netherlands Water Partnership, 2021-04-15 -
Mapping land suitability to guide landscape restoration in the amazon
Land 10 (2021)4. - ISSN 2073-445X -
Extending grassland age for climate change mitigation and adaptation on clay soils
European Journal of Soil Science (2021). - ISSN 1351-0754 -
Understanding integration within the Dutch multi-layer safety approach to flood risk management
International Journal of River Basin Management (2021). - ISSN 1571-5124 -
Effects of plant species identity override diversity effects in explaining sedimentation within vegetation in a flume experiment
International Review of Hydrobiology (2021). - ISSN 1434-2944 -
Integration of hard and soft supervised machine learning for flood susceptibility mapping
Journal of Environmental Management 291 (2021). - ISSN 0301-4797 -
An ecosystem service perspective on urban nature, physical activity, and health
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (2021)22. - ISSN 0027-8424 -
Dam builders and their works: Beaver influences on the structure and function of river corridor hydrology, geomorphology, biogeochemistry and ecosystems
Earth-Science Reviews 218 (2021). - ISSN 0012-8252 -
Enhancing traditional floodwater governance for inclusive and resilient flood-based livelihood systems in Tana river floodplains, Kenya
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2021). - ISSN 0964-0568 -
Quantifying Nutrient Trade in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Under Extreme Weather Events Using Quantum-Dot Tagged Phosphorus
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 (2021). - ISSN 2296-701X
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