Dossier
Flooding
The amount of extreme rainfall and its severity is increasing in the Netherlands and Western Europe. What is the reason for this and what can we do to limit nuisance? In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of research on flooding.
Climate change is not only rising global temperatures, it also alters rainfall patterns. In the Netherlands we find that there are more and more floods by heavy rain. In urban areas, streets are more often flooded and it provides the necessary nuisance.
Changing rainfall patterns
Wageningen University & Research studies the causes of heavy rainfall and is looking for solutions to this phenomenon. For example, more green spaces in the city ensures that water can be drained faster into the ground. Storage of water is also important, because not only the number of heavy rains is increasing, also there are longer periods of drought.
News about flooding
Projects about flooding
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Multifunctional use of flood defences
- PhD research by Richard Marijnissen -
CLIMAX: Climate Services Through Knowledge Co-Production
- A Euro-South American Initiative for Strengthening Societal Adaptation Response to Extreme Events. -
PhD K Raaphorst - Look Closer: Semiotic reflection on the visual communication of multifunctional flood defence landscape designs
- Within landscape architecture and planning, visual representations of landscape designs constitute the primary means of communication. Despite this reliance on the visual, there is no visual research approach available that allows a critical reflection on how these representations function within planning and design processes. Within this PhD project, such an approach is being developed by combining theory and methods from disciplines such as communication science, art history, and political geography. Concepts such as semiotics (Barthes, Eco, Derrida), simulacra (Baudrillard), and power/knowledge (Foucault) are used to describe how the visual communication (i.e. creation and interpretation) of landscape designs influences the design process.
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Publications about flooding
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