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.
Different water management strategies (dikes, retention, land use change, insurance, etc) will be developed to cope with future impacts. The strategies are targeted at areas in both Germany and the Netherlands and will be developed with stakeholders from both countries in a series of workshops.
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): 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 in the Rhine basin' (working title), by Aline te Linde is one of the deliverables of the ACER project.
For more information and an overview of publications: http://www.adaptation.nl/ - ACER.
