Print Email Facebook Twitter Building safety with nature Title Building safety with nature: Salt marshes for flood risk reduction Author Vuik, V. (TU Delft Coastal Engineering) Contributor Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (promotor) Borsje, Bas W. (copromotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2019-03-27 Abstract Flood risk reduction in coastal areas is traditionally approached from a conventional engineering perspective, where dikes and dams are built to withstand the forces of tides, surges and waves. Recently, a nature-based approach to flood risk reduction is increasingly promoted, in which the benefits of coastal ecosystems for reducing the impact of extreme weather events are utilized. Ecosystems such as salt marshes, mangrove forests, coral reefs and sand dunes are preserved, enhanced or even created, in order to reduce flood risk in coastal areas. Nature-based flood defenses can work stand-alone, like sand dunes, but can also function in combination with engineered defenses, for example when vegetated foreshores reduce wave loads on dikes or dams. Subject Flood risknature-based solutionsforeshoresalt marshvegetation To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:9339474c-3c48-437f-8aa5-4b908368c17e ISBN 978-94-6332-470-0 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2019 V. Vuik Files PDF dissertationVuikWeb.pdf 15.94 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9339474c-3c48-437f-8aa5-4b908368c17e/datastream/OBJ/view