Why AllRisk?
Flood risk reduction is one of the major challenges of humankind, especially for the people who live close to the water. In The Netherlands, the Dutch Delta program has tackled this challenge through several projects to protect the delta and to give room for the river. However, the influence of climate change has urged the central government and the Regional Water Authorities to follow new safety standards and further reduce flooding probabilities by more than a factor of 10.
From 2017, this new safety standards came legally into place. Therefore, under the umbrella of the Flood protection program (in Dutch named to as HWPB), the government will reinforce about 2/3s of the 3.500 kilometers of the primary flood defenses over the next two decades. AllRisk supports this implementation that requires an increased pace and decreased cost, compared to past reinforcements.
We are a five years research program (from 2017 to 2021) that investigates flood risk and how measures such as the reinforcement of the flood defenses can reduce this risk. We also consider the benefits for the landscape and ecology along with an adequate legal, institutional, and societal context for the implementation.
Who are we?
We are AllRisk. We are a group of 16 Ph.D. students, 4 Postdocs/Researchers, and our supervisors. We work at five different universities. We have backgrounds ranging from levee engineering to law. But we all share a passion for delivering new and better ways to reduce flood risk where we live, are coming from, or there are similar challenges.
Workshop at one of the regional water authorities at the end of February 2019.
We collaborate. We are partners of our users by working together, through user meetings every six months and the AllRisk User Days such as the one that took place in 2019. We collaborate within and beyond AllRisk by working on joint cases with related projects and by organizing or joining program meetings and fieldtrips to interesting locations for research and practice.
We communicate. We publish and attend conferences. We discuss our results with users, water boards, and the government program for the implementation of the new safety standards.
As a research group, we are led by prof.dr.ir. Matthijs Kok (professor of Flood Risk at the section of Hydraulic Structures & Flood Risk of TUDelft) and ir. Richard Jorissen (director at the Flood Protection Program). We joined forces along with all partners and related projects to help with our work, the practical implementation of the new flood protection standards.
We hope and expect that you find useful insights on this website for your work, and if there are opportunities to work together, please contact us!!
Program coordinators
prof.dr.ir. Matthijs Kok
Matthijs.Kok@tudelft.nl
With who are we working?
Partly funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research, an important aspect of AllRisk is that we carry out the research within five different universities and work as partners with over 30 users.
Partners include the Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment (Rijkswaterstaat), seven Regional Water Authorities (Water boards), the Dutch province of Groningen, three knowledge institutes, 13 companies among international consultancies, small and medium enterprises, and non-government organizations. We also strengthen international collaborations by working with universities in the USA, Japan, and Germany. Partners contribute with time and money by, for example facilitating data, supervision and by inviting researchers to work part-time at their office.
Below the list with all parties, which also reflects the wide range of potential users.
Main funding institute
Universities
Government organizations
Research Institutes
Consultancies
Non-government organization
International collaborators
How do we take research into practice?
In the Netherlands flood defences are by far the most adequate and efficient measure to reduce flood risks. Therefore, the ambition of the AllRisk program is to help with the practical challenges of the reinforcements of these measures. To that end, we not only work intensively with the dike or levee professionals (‘dijkewerkers’ in Dutch) of partner organizations but also with related projects.
Hereby, we highlight the main cooperations, its achievements and the expected outcomes. (Please add two sentences to explain them):
- The Flood Protection Programme or HWBP. Matthijs
- POV Macrostabiliteit. Wim
- POV Waddenzee Dijken. Willemijn
- SoSeal. It was mentioned in the proposal: Wim/ Matthijs?
Below, you find the latest events related to these collaborations and the full list of related projects.
Related events
27/09/2020
User day two years AllRisk
After two years working with the new flood risk approach, we shared our progress and organized a meeting to receive comments and suggestions from the partners to improve the results.
23/04/2020
Workshop project E?
Related projects
Last modified: 05/05/2020