Title:Designing Resilient Riverscapes

Speaker:Steffen Nijhuis

Time:Tuesday, May, 14, 2024, 14:30(UTC+8)

Venue: Room 708, Caihe Building (Building No.27), Wushan Campus, SCUT

Tencent Conference No.: 164 454 150 (Password: 202405)

Summary:

Due to climate change urban deltas around the world face increased risks of flooding by rivers and sea, coastal erosion and subsidence. To ensure a more sustainable future for these urban river landscapes, spatial planning and adaptive design strategies that strengthen resilience are needed. Not only to cope with their vulnerabilities, but also to strengthen their capacity to face natural and artificial threats. This lecture addresses an integrative and multiscale design approach for flood control, urban development and ecology focussed on rivers. Cases from the Netherlands exemplify how urban planners, landscape architects, engineers and ecologists collaborate for social-ecological inclusive urban futures and water safety.