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Dec 31, 2015
Coastal Defence Alternatives in the Netherlands: The Dutch Coast: Paper No. 1
Authors: Cees (C) J. Louisse and Ton (A) J. KuikAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Coastal Engineering 1990
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Coastal defence is an important issue in the Netherlands since more than half of its territory is situated below sea-level. Coastal erosion causes a permanent threat for this largely natural system. As a consequence flood-protection of the polderland may not everywhere be sufficiently guaranteed in the future. Besides dune area with valuable interests may be lost. These problems will worsen due to sea-level rise.
In 1987 the minister of public works instructed to perform a study to identify these problems and to develope alternatives for an overall coastal defence strategy in the Netherlands and to determine the effects of implementation of the alternatives over a time interval of several decades. The impacts of 4 alternatives have been determined with a policy analysis model, which has been especially developed for this purpose.
Model calculations indicate that the more (structural) measures for coastal defence are taken the less are the losses of dune area and the higher the costs. As time proceeds (up to 2090) the differences in costs between the alternatives decrease, while losses for some of the alternatives rise highly. Accelleration of sea-level rise results in an increase of costs and losses of dune area. A remarkable increase of impacts shows up when a change in wind climate is introduced.
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Coastal Engineering 1990
Pages: 1862 - 1875
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© 1991 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Dec 31, 2015
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Cees (C) J. Louisse
Rijkswaterstaat, Tidal Waters Division, P.O.Box 20907,2500 EX The Haque, The Netherlands
Ton (A) J. Kuik
Rijkswaterstaat, Tidal Waters Division, P.O.Box 20907,2500 EX The Haque, The Netherlands
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