There is a clear demand for a collaborative knowledge-sharing by online climate adaptation platforms that contribute to (inter)national knowledge exchange and raising awareness about climate change. Climate adaptation platforms (CAPs) can contain decision-support tools to facilitate the process of decision-making, …

Climate change adaptation requires understanding of complex social ecological systems (SESs). One source of uncertainty in complex SESs is ambiguity, defined as the range and variety of existing perceptions in and of an SES, which are considered equally valid, resulting in a lack of a unique or single …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, public spaces are being redesigned and revalued. In the ZonMW project ‘From Prevention to Resilience’, we aim to understand these changes both in the short term, mapping the more ad hoc responses to the pandemic in public space, and in the long term, exploring how public …

The rapid implementation of large scale floating solar panels has consequences to water quality and local ecosystems. Environmental impacts depend on the dimensions, design and proportions of the system in relation to the size of the surface water, as well as the characteristics of the water system (currents, …

The Northern Netherlands is like many delta’s prone to a wide range of climate change effects. Given the region its long history with floods and adaptation, there are numerous initiatives to be found that tried to battle these effects. As part of the Climate Adaptation Week Groningen, an inventory was …

Van 19 t/m 25 januari 2021 vond de Klimaatadaptatieweek Groningen plaats. Een online week vol activiteiten voor jong en oud. Het programma tijdens de Klimaatadaptatieweek zat boordevol leuke, vernieuwende en inspirerende elementen. Van conferenties, verdiepende lezingen en tentoonstellingen, tot aan …

Klimaatadaptatie is booming. De transitie naar een klimaatbestendige en waterrobuust Nederland komt daarom in een versnelling. Nagenoeg elke gemeente in Nederland heeft al meerdere voorbeelden van klimaatadaptieve oplossingen gerealiseerd. Die oplossingen betekenen vaak ook een verandering van de openbare …

Climate change and changing land use challenge the livability and flood safety of Dutch cities. One option cities have to become more climate-proof is to increase infiltration of stormwater into soil through permeable pavement and thus reduce discharge of stormwater into sewer systems. To analyze the …