Projects Optimizing Solutions

  • Resilient infastructure in Mozambique

    This project aims to analyse the social-political impacts of urban infrastructure development in Beira, Mozambique second largest city.

  • Project STAR-FLOOD

    STAR-FLOOD aims to design policies to better deal with river flood risks in urban areas.

  • Science-policy interactions in the Wadden Sea

    Science-policy interactions are often contested, due to strategic production and use of knowledge. This is problematic because the potential of science to enrich decision-making is underexploited.

  • Bottom-up initiatives in flood risk governance

    acing the challenges of climate change adaptation, TRANS-ADAPT aims to analyse and evaluate the multiple use of flood alleviation schemes with respect to social transformation in communities exposed to flood hazards.

  • Exploring the potential of Managaged Aquifer Recharge in Bangladesh

    Project Delta-MAR enhances knowledge on financial, institutional, environmental, technical, and social factors that influence the potential of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) for safe drinking water provision in saline deltas.

  • Kockengen waterproof

    Subsidence causes major problems in urbanized areas, like Kockengen. That’s why the municipality wants to start a large project called ‘Kockengen Waterproof’. 

  • Governance of adaptation to climate change

    This project investiges the normative principles that underlie Dutch governance of adaptation to climate change.

  • Assessing water governance in practice

    During this project, a three-step interdisciplinary method to assess approaches to water shortage, water quality and flood risks has been developed.

  • Flood protection and the redevelopment of an urbanized riverbed area

    This research is about legal aspects of a large scale redevelopment of an riverbed area, where primary dikes are relocated and residents are exposed to larger flood risks.

  • Space for dikes

    Because of climate change and sea level rise dikes will have to be modified in the future. To prevent spatial developments in areas that will be required for these dike modifications, this areas should be safeguarded from spatial developments.

  • Protecting drinking water resources

    The main question is whether the current Dutch system of public and private norms provides adequate standards for the protection of drinking water resources in relation to shale gas extraction in the Netherlands.

  • Water quality management

    The study tries to provide guidance to the transformation process in China's water management from a legal, political and policy.

  • Responses of society to changes in the global water cycle

    In this project we try to find out how the individual right to water can best be combined with a sustainable use and management of water resources, thus trying to combine an individual short time right and a long term protection goal.

  • Public and Private Responsibilities for Adaptation to Climate Change

    The Water Framework Directive aims to harmonise European water management based on a river basin approach. 

  • Shale Gas Extraction in the Netherlands

    This research is about the way legislation should best be formulated / designed to be able to stimulate innovation and sustainability with large scale area developments and the way public and private stakeholders deal with these diiferent kinds of legislation.

  • Strategies for subsiding Jakarta

    Northern Jakarta is subsiding. In a few decades from now, it may have fallen an additional 3-5 metres below mean sea level. Unless action is taken, there will be more frequent and prolonged flooding.

  • Responsibilities for adaptation to climate change

    Thos project assessed the expected effectiveness of the division of responsibilities for climate adaptation in Dutch vulnerable network sectors following a number of indicators.

  • From river basin to barrier reef

    This project focused on understanding and predicting the distribution of freshwater and suspended sediment over the Berau river and the estuarine channel network.

  • Governing land subsidence in Indonesia

    This project explores the gaps amongst actual government’s policies and suggests that there is a need to involve multi stakeholders – local governments, communities, civil society organizations, academics, and private sectors – on dealing with land subsidence problems to achieve effective governance.

  • Mega-nourishments on Wadden Sea ebb-deltas

    Ebb-tidal delta's are shallow sandy features at the seaward side of tidal inlets. For the Wadden Sea they are important because they dissipate large parts of the indicent wave energ, thereby protecting the fragile Wadden Sea, and they are (at least temporarily) a source of sand for the Wadden Sea and the barrier islands. 

  • Nutrient management and legislation in deltas

    The aim is to test the potential of paleoenvironmental records to help setting targets for water quality standards and nutrient management in delta-dominated coastal areas under extensive anthropogenic pressure.

  • Floodland

    This proposal focusses on flood risk management related to planning and land use and discusses alternative approaches to store abundant water from river floods (and also flash floods) in more innovative ways.

  • Research agenda for the Delta-Ostrich

    Our overall objective is to establish a science-based fundamental research agenda for long-term, sustainable management of the Rhine-Meuse delta.