This chapter presents a conversation with Henk Ovink, first Dutch special envoy for international water affairs. Ovink works with governments, knowledge institutions, organizations such as the World Bank and the UN, the global business community as well as the civil society representatives. 'Building' …

De Nationaal Coördinator Groningen (NCG) heeft als taak om onderzoek en kennisontwikkeling gerelateerd aan aardbevingen en de ontwikkelingen van een kansrijk Groningen te ontwikkelen.

Floods can be approached at a given location with two different concepts in mind: defending against floods or adapting to floods (Saurí-Pujol et al., 2001) (further, the option of mitigation exists, but this is a rather long-term and large-scale approach). First, resistance-based flood protection is …