As the year passes, keeping themselves afloat has become more challenging for the Netherlands. Climate change and sea level rise are primary factors influencing the maintenance and reinforcement of the country's dikes system. Therefore, a new Delta Plan has been implemented to make the dikes system climate-proof …

This research aimed to find out how the Netherlands and the UAE can collaborate on seaweed production by using the Dubai Expo to bring both parties together. Seaweed brings a green solution towards the Food Security index pressures felt in the UAE now. These pressures are; water availability, oceans …

The natural value of Dutch sandy beaches has been declining for decades. These relatively unstable, low nutritious, wave-washed environments lack the primary producers that represent the base of the food web. Thus, the sandy beach food web relies almost entirely on nutrient influx of other systems. Beside …

The project consists of a regional strategy for the Bajo Guadiana River Valley, in the southern border in between Portugal and Spain. Developed in three steps: Landscape Regeneration, Sustainable Local Production, Green-Blue Accessibility. Analyzing the area, it is clear that the current use of the …

Fish have the natural behaviour to move across various aquatic ecosystems and for some species this is of vital importance. Migration is often a seasonal phenomenon which occurs in order to move between habitats, such as winter refuges-, foraging- and spawning or nursery habitats, also escaping unfavourable …

In many countries the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is extinct or numbers are declining; resulting in a classification as “near threatened” on the IUCN’s Red List. In one-third of the European countries, however, conservation efforts, enabled the return of the species or the improvement of weakened populations. …

Waterschap Rijn en IJssel wil de zoetwatermosselen gaan kweken in effluent van een RWZI. Hier is voldoende ruimte en voedingsstoffen aanwezig voor de mosselen. Bijkomend voordeel is dat de mosselen tevens kunnen bijdragen aan de waterkwaliteit van effluent. Er is geïnventariseerd waar het habitat van …

In dit onderzoek is gekeken naar de moge lijkheden om alsnog de waterkwaliteits- doelen mogelijk te maken. Hiertoe is een drietrapsanalyse uitgevoerd. In de maatregelenanalyse is onderzocht wanneer maatrege len onder de Nitraatrichtlijn of onder de Kaderrichtlijn Wa ter kunnen vallen, rekening houdend …

Van de hoofdlandschappen in Nederland neemt het zoetwatergetijdengebied, in het mondingsgebied van de grote rivieren, veruit de kleinste oppervlakte in beslag. Voor Tiengemeten is een streefbeeld ontwikkeld: een begeleid natuurlijk zoetwatergetijdengebied met herkenbare cultuurhistorie en mogelijkheden …