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Managing Adaptive Responses to changing flood risk in the North Sea Region (MARE)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,
Recent flooding has demonstrated the vulnerability of North Sea Region. Municipalities have an urgent need to reduce flood risk, but lack a framework and the resources. The overarching aim of MARE is to enable widespread implementation of local adaptive measures that mitigate flood risk. The project is focusing on developing a transnational methodology to implement urban Flood Risk Management (FRM ...
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Tiengemeten, restoration of freshwater tidal area in the Haringvliet estuary, the Netherlands (10GEMETEN)
Start date: Nov 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2007,
Background
Tiengemeten is an island estuary of the rivers Rhine and Meuse, just south of Rotterdam. Since the last embankment in 1860, Tiengemeten consists of 700 ha arable land and 300 ha reedbeds. As a result of the construction of a dam in 1970, the tidal ebb and flow in the estuary practically ceased. The effect has had serious consequences for the ve ...
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