Adaptive Delta Management for flood risk and resilience in Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (S2) ◽  
pp. 201-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Gersonius ◽  
J. Rijke ◽  
R. Ashley ◽  
P. Bloemen ◽  
E. Kelder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Adaptive Delta Management

scholarly journals Flood Risk and Resilience in the Netherlands: In Search of an Adaptive Governance Approach

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2563
Author(s):  
Astrid Molenveld ◽  
Arwin van Buuren
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Adaptive Policy ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

In the Netherlands, dealing with the risk of flooding in the face of the current climate change requires a governance approach that is less based upon the long-standing tradition of prevention and protection, and more oriented toward ideas of resilience and adaptivity. Such an approach is assumed to be more resilient compared to static approaches and better equipped to deal with the indeterminate character of a problem like flood risk. This article presents the Dutch attempt to introduce a more polycentric and adaptive governance approach in flood management, called multilayered safety (MLS). We studied this approach via interviews and an extensive document study, and analyzed the institutions governing the issue using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework of Elinor Ostrom. For years, the issue was in the hands of a small network of actors, mainly occupied by water experts and governed by a strong lead organization and permanent bodies. While introducing a new, more adaptive policy concept the government encountered both resistance and inability within the existing policy regime. This article shows that the issue of flood safety was successfully ‘tamed’ for decades. Adopting a more adaptive and polycentric approach necessitates ‘untaming’ the issue of flood safety.

Keeping Feet Dry: Rotterdam’s Experience in Flood Risk and Resilience Building

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Audrey O. Esteban ◽  
Jurian Edelenbos ◽  
Naomi van Stapele
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Flooding Disaster ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
The City ◽  
Collective Engagement ◽  
Depth Interviews

Rotterdam City in the South of Holland is one of the most vibrant cities you will find in the Netherlands. The city has gone through a transformation from the time it was bombed in the 1940s up to the time that a part of the city was flooded in 1953. Through extensive rebuilding and the Delta Plan project, the city has been well protected against any flooding disaster that may come. However, how resilient really is Rotterdam? Through in-depth interviews of key stakeholders in the City of Rotterdam, the study investigates the collective engagement in the city and how this has helped shape Rotterdam’s position in urban resilience. The study used the Collective Engagement Urban Resilience Framework as a framework to understand how disaster prone cities transform itself to become disaster resilient.

INTEGRATED DESIGN FOR FLOOD RISK AND SPATIAL QUALITY—EXAMPLES FROM THE DUTCH DELTA PROGRAMME

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-184
Author(s):  
Anne Loes Nillesen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Delta Programme ◽  
Spatial Quality ◽  
Dutch Delta ◽  
Risk Protection

INTRODUCTION The Netherlands faces a significant flood risk task. In order to remain a safe place to live the Netherlands has to upgrade its extensive flood risk protection system. This results in an elevation and reinforcement task for many of the Netherlands water barriers. When those barriers are positioned in an open landscape, the technical reinforcement is often easy to embed specially. However, many barriers have been built over the years making the reinforcement into a challenging spatial assignment. This article shows different case study examples of a research by design study (performed in the broader context of the Dutch Delta programme) that explores integral design solutions for flood risk and spatial (re)development. The Houston Galveston Bay case study demonstrates the international applicability of the research by design method.

scholarly journals Shaping flood risk governance through science-policy interfaces: Insights from England, France and the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dries Hegger ◽  
Meghan Alexander ◽  
Tom Raadgever ◽  
Sally Priest ◽  
Silvia Bruzzone
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk Governance
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