In this paper we describe one aspect of nature-based flood protection by foreshores in hybrid flood defences and discuss how foreshore ecosystem restoration can contribute to flood protection. Flood protection consists of flood prevention, by grey, green or hybrid defences, and flood impact reduction, …

Presentatie over ClimateCafé Peru bij de nationale Blue Deal vergadering

ALIFE Lezing Instituut voor Life Science & Technology

Lezing op uitnodiging van The Shift in La Monnaie in Brussel, i.h.k.v. symposium.

Monitoring the Combined Effects of Induced Earthquakes and Climate Change on a Heritage Building in Groningen

This webinar will explore how past-present-future connections of river imaginaries have influenced and are influencing river management in the context of climate change adaptation. Lotte de Jong will reflect in particular on the Border-Meuse river (The Netherlands) trajectory, where a large-scale infrastructure …

Keynote at Climate Existence conference 16-18 August, 2023, Sigtuna, Sweden.

The concept of biodiversity, which usually serves as a shorthand to refer to the diversity of life on Earth at different levels (ecosystems, species, genes), was coined in the 1980s by conservation biologists worried over the degradation of ecosystems and the loss of species, and willing to make a case …