Nederland als robuust deltaland

The steady titanic tilt toward dematerialization and decentralization means that further flows are inevitable.

deciding to change an infrastructure already built takes immense social effort.

without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”1

A variety of factors are driving the “land-loss crisis,” as it’s come to be called. But the essential one is a marvel of engineering. What leaping carp are to Chicagoland, sunken fields are to the parishes around New Orleans—evidence of a man-made natural disaster. Thousands of miles of levees, flood walls, and revetments have been erected to manag