Throughout the world, spatial planning depends increasingly upon water and the subsurface. Deltares supplies the know-how about water, soil and the subsurface that government authorities need to draw up policies and plans for area development, innovation management and water safety. We conduct strategic reviews, scenario studies and integrated studies for the development of plans and the elaboration of vision documents.
We look well into the future to identify the challenges we will face as a society and to determine what expertise will be needed to respond. Our knowledge and experience can be used to their full potential in the exploratory phase of studies and projects: during the definition of the problem and the investigation of potential solutions.
Integrated water resources management
There is enough water on earth but the problem is its distribution. In one place there is too much and in others too little.> Read more
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
Coastal practitioners and coastal managers are regularly faced with difficult day-to-day decisions from coastal erosion and pollution to tourism development and urban expansion.> Read more
Climate change
Climate change is a potential threat for people living in Delta areas all over the world. > Read more
Flood risk management / Disaster risk reduction
Throughout the world, floods threaten large numbers of people. Economic development and climate change are aggravating the situation.> Read more
Innovation management
An innovation in the area of water, ground or subsoil is usually not an automatic success.> Read more
Strategic studies
Many clients ask us to show them what effect a decision would have on a delta, river or coastal area. In the near future and also in more than 30 years. > Read more
Ecology
The ecology in delta areas is under increasing pressure. Deltares studies the ecological functioning of fresh water, groundwater, marine and coastal ecosystems in relation to human use.> Read more
