Result description
We are gaining understanding how natural coastal landscapes form under sea level rise. The interaction between mud sedimentation processes and vegetation dynamics along rivers and in salt marsh are one critical element to achieve land level rise. Added benefits are coastal defence and carbon capture. We present know-how based on historic cases, numerical models and unique experiments.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- We are sharing our knowledge
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Collaboration
- Fellowship to advance my/our research
- Coastal and delta management authorities looking for more sustainable means of protection and ecological resilience than dikes and dams.
- Likewise, but then engineering and consultancy companies aiming for landscape-scale measures beyond lip service to building with nature
- European researchers ready to apply and extend our OA codes for vegetation and for storm-wave-driven sediment transport in Delft3D
- Others/ No specific audience
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Research and Technology Organisations
- Academia/ Universities
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
Natural processes formed our coastal plains and deltas. How can we use such processes to keep up with future sealevel rise?
Feasibility of raising land by allowing nature development in coastal water systems with sufficient sediment has been demonstrated both in the geological record, numerical models and scale experiments.
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
