A Safe Water Barrier Growing with the Sea:The Wadden Works Project, the Netherlands

Abstract

Sea barriers such as dikes are essential for safety. It is now time for the next step in the evolution of Dutch coastal engineering. Rather than merely minimizing negative effects, we now wish to create positive effects. This vision is an example of how the narrow technological approach can be abandoned in favor of an approach which addresses a broad range of environmental, ecological and social interests.

Keywords

Dike / Intervention / Natural Process

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2014 Higher Education Press