Ongoing subsidence is an complex problem in the Dutch lowlands for cities and polder land. Old strategies for coping have bottom limits. New strategies will be arranged and the pacing of subsidence mapped and modelled, so that the measures to negotiate and decide on have figures in mm and €.

• dr. ir. Dries Hegger
• dr. Gilles Erkens
• dr. ir. M.M. (Mariet) Hefting
• prof. mr. Marleen van Rijswick
• prof. dr. Peter Driessen
• dr. Kim Cohen
• prof. dr. Esther Stouthamer
• Ruth de Klerk
• dr. Oscar van Vliet
• Duygu Tolunay
• Kim de Wit MSc
• Bente Lexmond MSc
• Pepijn van Elderen MSc

• Gilles Erkens (Deltares)
• Bernardien Tiehatten (LOSS)
• Prof. Ramon Hanssen (TU Delft)
• J.G. Rots (TU Delft)
• K.G. Gavin (TU Delft)
• Prof. Ekko van Ierland (WUR)
• Prof. Hans-Peter Weikard (WUR)
• Jan Willem van Groenigen (WUR)
• Jan JH van den Akker (WUR)
• Dr. Mandy Korff (TUD
• Deltares)
• Dr. Peter Fokker (TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands)

Delta areas, as unique ecosystems, are among the most densely populated areas in the world. Deltas are under increasing human and natural pressure. Future global change, with intensifying human activity, increasing weather extremes, changing river flow regimes and accelerated sea-level rise, will put deltas and their societies at increasing risk.

We therefore need deltas that are resilient to natural hazards, make sustainable use of natural resources, have healthy environmental conditions, and are able to cope with future climate change and sea-level rise. It is now the moment for science and society to find sustainable pathways into such future. This requires addressing the wide variety of processes - physical, chemical, biological, institutional and socio-economic – that interact in deltas in an integrated approach.

In the hub Water, Climate and Future Deltas researchers from varying disciplines at Utrecht University cooperate with external partners to design and evaluate pathways to sustainable delta development. The hub will provide policy makers and delta managers with the essential scientific basis for informed decision-making on pathways towards sustainable deltas.

https://www.uu.nl/en/research/sustainability/research/water-climate-future-deltas

• prof. dr. Martin Wassen
• prof. dr. Esther Stouthamer
• prof. mr. Marleen van Rijswick
• dr. ir. M.M. (Mariet) Hefting
• prof. dr. Detlef van Vuuren
• prof. dr. Roderik van de Wal
• prof. dr. Hans Middelkoop
• dr. Murray Scown
• dr. H. (Haomiao) Du

• Dr. Marjolijn Haasnoot - Deltares
• Dr. Gilles Erkens - Deltares
• Drs. Henk van Hardeveld - HDSR