Many coastal communities worldwide are facing challenges caused by increasing sea levels. However, urban development, population growth and industrialisation in low-lying delta regions persist. This includes the Netherlands and British Columbia, Canada. Both regions explore new and innovative flood risk …

Presentatie All For One And One For All: How co-creation processes of urban nature-based solutions in The Netherlands facilitate the delivery of co-benefits

This presentation presented 2 examples of analysing and visualisations of ClimateScan platform data. Analysing the open-source Change Adaptation Platform ClimateScan shows that surface bio filtration is the category with most uploads, which is the case in Riga (started green infrastructure around 2020) …

High population growth, a lack of wastewater treatment plants and poor wastewater management are major challenges in wastewater management in Timor-Leste (East Timor). One of the approaches of the government of Timor-Leste is to separate wastewater into greywater and blackwater from domestic, commercial, …

At a time of mounting ecological crises and biodiversity loss, there is an urgent need for nature-based solutions. Equestrian properties cover a considerable proportion of the European rural and peri-urban landscape and provide much potential for integrating ecosystem services, such as the inclusion …

a small-scale urban nature-based solutions (for flood, drought, heat stress and water quality) that you can find on the open source ClimateScan.org database with over 14,000 global climate adaptation projects

Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) or nature-based solutions (NBSs) are widely implemented to collect, store and infiltrate stormwater. The buildup of pollutants is expected in NBSs, and Dutch guidelines advise monitoring the topsoil of bio-swales every 5 years. In the Netherlands, almost every …

Gastcollege voor de masteropleiding Cultural Geography op de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden. Thema van het gastcollege was praktijkvoorbeelden van klimaatadaptatie en infrastructuur in de Nederlandse (en met name Groningse) context.

Het lectoraat Nature-based River Management is ruim een jaar geleden van start gegaan. Lector Jantsje van Loon-Steensma richt het onderzoek vooral op de regio. 'Onze studenten komen veelal uit de regio en gaan daar ook vaak werken. Daarom vind ik het belangrijk dat het onderzoek naar natuur-gebaseerde …