Storm surge barriers are crucial for preventing coastal floods. However, assessing the costs and benefits of improving their reliability is often...
Economic optimization of storm surge barrier systems
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Rising sea levels: if it gets worse than we thought
Three experts (TU Delft, government, industry) debate three propositions. This time: Rutger de Graaf, Fransje Hooijmeijer en Ties Rijcken. Should we...
From failure to performance
Over one billion people are protected against floods, or should be. Flood protection measures consist primarily of...
EMERGO – the Dutch flood risk system since 1986
My PhD dissertation (the "Tiesis"): In 1986, the completion of the Eastern Scheldt barrier made Dutch flood risk policymaking world famous. What has...
A critique to new flood risk ideas
Decisions on measures to improve a flood risk system are in part supported by general ideas about how the system works and should work. After the...
Simdelta Global
The research project ‘SimDelta’ builds on novel internet technology to support the development of the Rhine-Meuse delta water infrastructure. It has...
SimDelta
Inquiry into an Internet-Based Interactive Model for Water Infrastructure Development in The Netherlands; The Dutch Delta Program is currently...
Moveable flood barriers in the Rhine-Meuse estuary
It is possible to reduce flood risk in estuaries without having to drastically modify the river banks by levees or to block shipping routes and...
Rhine estuary closeable but open
An integrated system approach to floodproofing the Rhine and Meuse estuaries in the 21st century; in the spring of 2008, Delft University of...
Floating neighbourhoods as they were and will be
Why dwellers would want to live on water; hydrologists and planners in the Netherlands introduce living on water as a logical response to the...