Project in brief
An appropriate level of safety against flooding from both sea and rivers is a requisite for living and working in the lower parts of The Netherlands. This, indeed, is the subject of this Delft Cluster project, appropriately titled 'Safety against flooding'.
Goal of the project
Exactly what level is 'appropriate' will be investigated in this project. For that, Dutch legislation is the starting point but this project will research the societal acceptance of flooding and, consequently, what should be appropriate safety levels in terms of probability of flooding.
The project team has identified the main elements of flood risk management:
- Hydraulic load on flood defenses:
- Genesis of floods on rivers Rhine and Meuse (more)
- Morphological behaviour of trained rivers during flood events (more)
- Data-driven, statistical and hybrid modeling in flood forecasting and quantification of uncertainty (more)
- Strength of flood defenses (more); and
- Consequences and societal acceptance of flooding (more).
Each of these elements are the focus of a 'work package'. Together, they should ensure that 'flood risk management' as a discipline will be significantly advanced.
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