
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
News 2016-2020
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Rhine Estuary Sediment Testing Ground: using clean dredged material better
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Experiment with salt marsh construction near Delfzijl successful
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Lessons from the Marker Wadden project
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Improving coastal restoration by temporarily imitating nature
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Oyster reefs used to counter large waves
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Martin Baptist in final of Prins Friso Engineers Award
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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Into uncharted territories – Subsidence along Africa’s Gulf of Guinea coast?
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Seagrass as bioindicator for eutrophication and pollution in the coastal bays of Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands
: Wageningen Marine Research - p. -
Options for mangrove-friendly alternativelivelihoods in the mangrove ecosystem (Opsi Mata Pencaharian Alternatif di Ekosistem Mangrove yang RamahLinggunkan)
IJmuiden : Wageningen Marine Research (Wageningen Marine Research report C075/22) - p. -
Identifying trait-based tolerance to sediment dynamics during seedling establishment across eight mangrove species
Limnology and Oceanography 67 (2022)10. - ISSN 0024-3590 - p. 2281 - 2295. -
Mangrove forest conservation vs shrimp production : Uncovering a sustainable co-management model and policy solution for mangrove greenbelt development in coastal Bangladesh.
Forest Policy and Economics 144 (2022). - ISSN 1389-9341 - p. 102824 - 102824. -
First evidence of polyembryony in black mangrove Avicennia germinans
Botanica Marina 65 (2022)5. - ISSN 0006-8055 - p. 321 - 324. -
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)