
Dossier
Building with Nature
Building with nature is a concept where nature is used to cope with climate change risks, such as floods, waves and sea level rise. It is also called 'nature-based solutions' or 'eco-engineering'. In this dossier you can find news, background information and results from scientists of Wageningen University & Research.
An oyster reef to protect the coast, mangroves or willows in front of the dyke. Slowly but surely, a new insight is gaining ground: hard civil engineering interventions by themselves are not a panacea. Nature seems willing to help us keep the upper hand over the advancing waves and rising sea levels and provides us with new sources of food and income.
Water engineering projects have become a lot greener, and Wageningen has played an important role in this. Together with the water engineering sector, we are developing water works that leave natural processes intact or make them part of the solution. There could even be restoration of the natural environment.
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- The Netherlands in 2120: Imagine what the world could look like if we start shaping it from a nature-based perspective today?
- Salt marshes: natural surge barriers in front of the dike
- Sand nourishment: a solution for ‘sand starvation’
- Room for the river in densely populated areas
Downloads & Links
- "Weaving dams to defend mangroves", Wageningen World no. 1 2017
- Article online: Nature lends a hand from Wageningen World no. 2 2013
- Flyer: Building with Nature
- Website: EcoShape – Building with Nature
- "Building with Nature gebruikt de natuur bij waterbouw"
Publications on building with nature
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Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments : Insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh
Environmental Research Letters 17 (2022)6. - ISSN 1748-9318 -
The contribution of mangrove leaf litter to juvenile shrimp (Penaeus monodon) production in mangrove-shrimp aquaculture systems
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): M.C.J. Verdegem, co-promotor(en): A.O. Debrot. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789464471342 - p. -
Sedimentation strategies provide effective but limited mitigation of relative sea-level rise in the Mekong delta
Communications Earth & Environment 3 (2022)1. - ISSN 2662-4435 -
Data presented in the paper: To Plant or Not to Plant: When can Planting Facilitate Mangrove Restoration?
: Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) -
Acoustic Surface Elevation Dynamics data Marconi salt marsh
: University of Twente -
Boekrecensie: Building with nature : Creating, implementing, and upscaling nature-based solutions: Erik van Eekelen and Matthijs Bouw
Water Governance 1 (2022). - ISSN 2211-0224 - p. 71 - 73. -
Effect of mangrove leaf litter on shrimp (Penaeus monodon, Fabricius, 1798) growth and color
Aquaculture 25 (2022). - ISSN 0044-8486 -
4s2a: Drivers of shrimp farmer adoption of Associated Mangrove Aquaculture in Bangladesh
In: Circular@WUR 2022. - : Wageningen University & Research - ISBN 9789464471625 -
Reconstruction of phyllotaxis at the example of digitized red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) and application to light interception simulation
in silico Plants 4 (2022)1. - ISSN 2517-5025 -
Facilitating Salt Marsh Restoration: The Importance of Event-Based Bed Level Dynamics and Seasonal Trends in Bed Level Change
Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2022). - ISSN 2296-7745 - 18 p.