Burhorn, Helena (2023) Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Flood Risk Management. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Within the last decades, the awareness of the climate change and the need to adapt in-creased rapidly. Flood risk and the loss of Biodiversity are main challenges. One innovative concept to cope with those are nature-based solutions. As they combine ecological, economi-cal, and social interests, they withhold the potential to contribute to flood resilience. Resili-ence can be built through its three aspects robustness, adaptability, and transformability. When implemented NBS can have a positive influence on all three and therefore contributes to resilience. Before they must be implemented. Within this process barriers and enabler as well as chances and challenges within are faced. These are highly contextual, but through the exploratory research in this thesis, they are elaborated upon by looking at two examples, ‘Große Aue’ in Germany and ‘De Onlanden’ in the Netherlands. Data was collected by con-ducting a policy analysis and semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that nature-based solutions as a fairly new concept still needs to be more acknowledged and promoted within policies. When implemented they show a high potential to positively influence the as-pects of resilience. Therefore, it was concluded that if nature-based solutions are integrated into flood risk management they can contribute to flood resilience and are valuable within the process of climate adaption.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Kann, F.M.G. van |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2023 14:46 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2023 14:46 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4127 |
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