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PhD Aline te Linde |
Project context and goals
The ACER (Adaptive Capacity to Extreme Events in the Rhine basin) project aims at identifying how long term developments such as climate change, socio economic developments, spatial planning and policy developments influence water management in the Rhine basin. The project develops an integrated Rhine model that enables quantifying the effects of term trends on the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts in the Rhine. An important issue will be to assess changes in future flood and drought probabilities.
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The strategies will be evaluated as to how they mitigate extreme events and lower risk (probability * damage) in especially the NiederRhein area at the border of Germany and the Netherlands.
The ACER project is funded by the Climate Changes Spatial Planning programma (BSIK - KvR). For more information and an overview of publications: http://www.adaptation.nl/- ACER and http://www.climateresearchnetherlands.nl/.
Period: 2005 - 2010
Budget: 3.2 MEuro
Parners: NL: Deltares, Institute for Enviromental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Institute for Earth Sciences VU University Amsterdam, TU Delft, Future Water, KNMI, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. Germany: Seecon GmBh , Universitat Osnabrueck.
The PhD 'future flood risk thesis by Aline te Linde, entitled 'Rhine at risk?: Impact of climate change on low-probability floods in the Rhine basin ' (working title), by Aline te Linde is and the effectiveness of flood management measures', is one of the deliverables of the ACER project. For more information and an overview of publicationsIt can be downloaded from: http://wwwdare.ubvu.adaptationvu.nl/ - ACER./handle/1871/19453