
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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Multiple dimensions of extreme weather events and their impacts on biodiversity
Climatic Change (2023), Volume: 176, Issue: 11 - ISSN 0165-0009 -
Subsidence reveals potential impacts of future sea level rise on inhabited mangrove coasts
Nature Sustainability (2023) - ISSN 2398-9629 -
Habitat complexity drives food web structure along a dynamic mangrove coast
Marine Pollution Bulletin (2023), Volume: 196 - ISSN 0025-326X -
Ten priority questions for increasing the consistency and success in hatchery production of the European flat oyster for habitat restoration
Aquatic Living Resources (2023), Volume: 36 - ISSN 0990-7440 -
Impact of oyster reefs on waves and erosion
In: Coastal Sediments 2023 - New Orleans: World Scientific Publishing - ISBN: 9789811279898 - p. 2176-2182. -
Protective structures as adaptive management strategy in Nature-based Solutions to mitigate sea level rise effects
Ecological Engineering (2023), Volume: 196 - ISSN 0925-8574 -
Drivers of mangrove vulnerability and resilience to tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Basin
Science of the Total Environment (2023), Volume: 898 - ISSN 0048-9697 -
Multi-scale observations of mangrove blue carbon ecosystem fluxes : The NASA Carbon Monitoring System BlueFlux field campaign
Environmental Research Letters (2023), Volume: 18, Issue: 7 - ISSN 1748-9318 -
Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
Ecology and Society (2023), Volume: 28, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1708-3087 -
The diversity of molluscan faunas in marine lakes of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia
Contributions to Zoology ( = Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde) (2023), Volume: 92, Issue: 5 - ISSN 1383-4517 - p. 391-430.