New Risk Management Study Findings Have Been Published by Researchers at Deltares (Flood resilient landscapes: area-based solutions combine added value for society with flood risk management): Risk Management

2024 MAY 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on risk management is the subject of a new report. According to news originating from Delft, Netherlands, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Society faces challenges such as caring for sustainable agriculture, clean energy and restoring biodiversity, whilst developing housing and industries.”

Financial supporters for this research include Rijkswaterstaat; Topconsortium Voor Kennis En Innovatie.

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Deltares: “Climate change meanwhile stresses the Dutch water management system, impacts flood risk management and fresh water supply. To ensure making the right decisions, which we will not regret in 100 years, we developed the concept of flood resilient landscapes. The concept of flood resilient landscapes confronts, with a perspective of long term development, desired socio-economic developments with carrying capacity and potential of underlying physical landscape conditions. The underlying principle is to create social added value while promoting or at least maintaining flood risk management, given (future) spatial and societal developments. The first results are so promising that the Dutch Flood Protection Programme aims to incorporate it.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The flood resilient landscapes concept offers the prospect of keeping the Netherlands safe beyond 2100 at socially acceptable costs and with public support now and in the future and paves the way towards implementation throughout international deltas.”

For more information on this research see: Flood resilient landscapes: area-based solutions combine added value for society with flood risk management. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2024,386():173-179. (Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences - http://www.proceedings-international-association-of-hydrological-sciences.net/). The publisher for Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences is Copernicus Publications.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-386-173-2024.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting A. de Leeuw, Deltares, Delft, 2600 MH, Netherlands. Additional authors for this research include E. Tromp, F. de Boer.

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