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Benthemplein The largest water square in the world
A beautiful city square that helps to prevent flooding in North Rotterdam. In dry weather you can exercise or sit quietly, in bad weather the square stores a lot of rainwater.
A call to action to mainstream water adaptation
Mainstreaming of water adaptation is necessary to accelerate a system-wide coherence on water across multiple agendas. These three videos are a call to action to mainstream water climate adaptation - targeting policy processes at international events such COP27, the UN 2023 Water Conference and COP28.
A patient process-oriented approach in Beira, Mozambique
Beira is a city in Mozambique with a municipal government that has worked with the Netherlands since 2012 in a long-term partnership to support urban resilience. The partners made a conscious decision to focus on process, allowing strategies to emerge and adapt to changing contexts.
The Wadden Sea region: a testing ground for climate adaptation
This case study on the Wadden Sea region is an important part of Dutch thinking on living with water through solutions that are integrated or combined with natural systems and serve multiple functions for regional development.
Working with nature in the Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta is the world’s third-largest, accounting for 18 percent of Vietnam’s GDP and population. This case study describes the shifts in approach of its development especially in agriculture, and engineering projects to manage water flows.
Building with nature in Demak, Indonesia
This case study describes how the Indonesian government has responded by piloting the Building with Nature (BwN) approach in the Demak district of Central Java province.
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