Climate proofing the Netherlands

Kabat, P.; Vierssen, W. van; Veraart, J.A.; Vellinga, P.; Aerts, J.C.J.H.

doi:10.1038/438283a

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“…Programme initiators envisaged that reacting on future consequences of climate change means focusing on regional and local adaptation measures (Kabat et al, 2005). The programme was arranged accordingly, delegating a major part of research to nine so-called 'hotspots'.…”

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Balancing divergence and convergence in transdisciplinary research teams

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Environmental Science & Policy

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Jaap Perenboom conducted his Master thesis in the field of organisation studies at TilburgUniversity. balancing of divergence and convergence should be taken into account during the design stage of these projects. In the context of knowledge co-production for environmental challenges, project management should proactively consider project structure, required level of partner diversity and project size. Acknowledgements

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Balancing divergence and convergence in transdisciplinary research teams

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2014

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…Whereas a single party can only optimize within its own boundaries, multiple actors can connect issues in terms of space, time or functions and employ, create or capture value by doing so (Evers and Susskind 2009;Kabat et al 2005;Susskind et al 1999;Woltjer and Al 2007). Multiple actors with either conflicting or parallel interests can seek mutual gain through their differences in utility, capability, expectations and forecasts or endowments (Lax and Sebenius 1986).…”

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Do We Need to Rethink Our Waterways? Values of Ageing Waterways in Current and Future Society

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2014

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In the past canals were developed, and some rivers were heavily altered, driven by the need for good transportation infrastructure. Major investments were made in navigation locks, weirs and artificial embankments, and many of these assets are now reaching the end of their technical lifetime. Since then the concept of integrated water resource management (IWRM) emerged as a concept to manage and develop water-bodies in general. Two pressing problems arise from these developments: (1) major reinvestment is needed in order to maintain the transportation function of these waterways, and (2), it is not clear how the implementation of the concept of IWRM can be brought into harmony with such reinvestment. This paper aims to illustrate the problems in capital-intensive parts of waterway systems, and argues for exploring value-driven solutions that rely on the inclusion of multiple values, thus solving both funding problems and stakeholder conflicts. The focus on value in cooperative strategies is key to defining viable implementation strategies for waterway projects.

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“…The Netherlands and the rest of the world's coastal delta regions are vulnerable to climate change and sea-level rise. Rather than coping with extreme climatic events, as people from all over the world have done over human history, climate proofing is a proactive approach to develop precautionary measures to address the low-probability but high-magnitude hydroclimatologic events forecasted under climate change and variability (Kabat et al 2005). Climate proofing should be driven by opportunities for technological, institutional, and societal innovations, rather than by the fear of climate-change induced threats.…”

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“…For example, the summer of 2003 was the hottest in Europe in more than 500 years, linked to an estimated 500 deaths in the Netherlands alone, but this could become a close-to-normal summer by about 2050 (Kabat et al 2005). The extremely low freshwater discharge by the river Rhine in 2003 resulted in groundwater seepage of seawater to the low-lying delta, which threatened substantial areas of Dutch agriculture and horticulture.…”

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“…The Netherlands are investing in "climate proofing" (Kabat et al 2005) that uses hard infrastructure and softer measures, such as insurance schemes or evacuation planning, to reduce the risks of climate change and hydrologic variability to a quantifiable level that is acceptable by the society or economy. The Netherlands and the rest of the world's coastal delta regions are vulnerable to climate change and sea-level rise.…”

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Linking Climate Change and Groundwater

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Integrated Groundwater Management

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Projected global change includes groundwater systems, which are linked with changes in climate over space and time. Consequently, global change affects key aspects of subsurface hydrology (including soil water, deeper vadose zone water, and unconfined and confined aquifer waters), surface-groundwater interactions, and water quality. Research and publications addressing projected climate effects on subsurface water are catching up with surface water studies. Even so, technological advances, new insights and understanding are needed regarding terrestrial-subsurface systems, biophysical process interactions, and feedbacks to atmospheric processes. Importantly, groundwater resources need to be assessed in the context of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, warming trends and associated changes in intensities and frequencies of wet and dry periods, even though projections in space and time are uncertain. Potential feedbacks of groundwater on the global climate system are largely unknown, but may be stronger than previously assumed. Groundwater has been depleted in many regions, but management of subsurface storage remains an important option to meet the combined demands of agriculture, industry (particularly the energy sector), municipal and domestic water supply, and ecosystems. In many regions, groundwater is central to the water-food-energy-climate nexus. Strategic adaptation to global change must include flexible, integrated groundwater management over many decades. Adaptation itself must be adaptive over time. Further research is needed to improve our understanding of climate and groundwater interactions and to guide integrated groundwater management.

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Climate proofing the Netherlands

Abstract: Regional climate change should not be seen only as a threat; changes to weather patterns could generate opportunities for large-scale innovations, say Pavel Kabat, Pier Vellinga and their colleagues.

Cited by 143 publications

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Balancing divergence and convergence in transdisciplinary research teams

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Do We Need to Rethink Our Waterways? Values of Ageing Waterways in Current and Future Society

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