Projects
Discover the various transdisciplinary research projects of Utrecht University on water, climate and sustainable delta development.
Living on Soft Soils (LOSS)
National consortium research making the Netherlands future proof against continued land subsidence and sinking of subsoil.
Former projects
- Dutch Diamonds in the Delta
- Living Polders
- All-risk
- Mekong delta
- Dealing with Drought in Deltas
- Ecological restoration of coastal dunes
- Land subsidence in the Vietnamese Mekong delta
- Involving citizens in designing integrated pathways for climate resilient & sustainable cities
- Linking the impacts of changes in climate and biodiversity on Delta grasslands’ vegetation and functioning across scales
- Monitoring Dynamic Mangrove Systems in Suriname and Indonesia using Planet Lab Satellite Images and the Historic Satellite Data Archive (Google Earth Engine)
- From the high mountains to the deltas
- Sedimentation enhancing strategies for river deltas: an interdisciplinary perspective
- Human costs of shrinking deltas: Adaptation pathways of vulnerable groups to sea-level rise in three Asian deltas
- Constructing a global hydrogeological database and a model builder framework for coastal salinity and subsidence modelling
- RiverCare
- Interactive exploration of fluvial futures
- Drowned Deltas
- Feasibility of nature-based adaptation in deltas
- Flood resilience of private properties (FLOODPREP)
- Sustainability and resilience of future river deltas
- Hydrological modelling of lakes and reservoirs
- Global drivers, future deltas
- Innovative approaches to sustainable and inclusive food systems in Asian deltas
- Political and social awareness on water environmental challenges (POWER)
- STAR-FLOOD