Projects
These projects are related to Integrated Coastal Zone Management. Click here to see all projects
Under the UNDP-GEF Danube Regional Project, Deltares (Delft Hydraulics) was commissioned to draft certain sections of the Roof Report 2004, and to assimilate the results from the daNUbs research project in the report. The key issues in this respect were a description of the pressures from nutrient loadings to the Danube River and its tributaries, as well as the impacts from these loadings on the Danube and its transboundary tributaries, on the Danube Delta and on the Black Sea.
Vietnam has a large coastal fringe with the land level of extensive areas near the mean sea level, making the country particularly susceptible to the impacts of sea level rise. For this reason, the Vietnamese Government decided to embark upon an assessment of the vulnerability of its
The objective was to support the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) in ensuring future sustainable development of the Laguna de Bay resources, based upon a sound knowledge of the functioning of the system, its users and the institutional setting. The project was therefore especially directed at capacity building and developing practical and realistic solutions for current problems and issues regarding the lake. Special focus was on drinking water supply, dredging requirements and infrastructure works.
Deltares (Delft Hydraulics) contributed to the physical river and delta water management aspects of the project as an input tot the Dutch team effort.
The EIA focused on identifying impacts of the completed Barrier and of the construction activities on the hydrodynamics, water quality and hydro-biology of the Gulf of Finland and Neva Bay water system in which the Barrier is located. A large number of Russian scientific experts with extensive knowledge of the local area were actively involved in this assessment.
