Future With Nature

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Josefien Donders
Master Utrecht University

Pegah Rezaei LinkedIn
fresh graduate Sapienza University

Rand Almuqham
Bachelor University of Warwick

Floor Spijkerboer
Master Utrecht University

Roos Wiessing
Master Utrecht University

Megan McGarvey
Master Czech University of Life Sciences

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About the team

We are driven to work towards a concrete solution to the current environmental and socio-economic problems regarding the Mississippi river. To reach this solution, we believe in working with nature, rather than working against it. Our international and and interdisciplinary team will allow us to come up with innovative and out-of-the-box ideas to reach these nature based solutions. We have expertise in nature conservation, sustainability, biochemistry, earth sciences, policy and technology management.

Our vision

Part b, pages 4-5. Our future vision imagines the delta functioning as a living system where nature forms the primary infrastructure, and natural processes are not only protected but promoted. The ideas include; blue/green corridors, oyster reef biosheld, sediment diversion & trapping, self-healing marshes, salinity control floodgates, dynamic restoration zones, planned floodplains, regenerative ocean farming, floating greenhouses, reintroducing beavers, saline crops, spatial equity, equity point system, mud motor, specialised corridors, move to renewables. References are accessible by scanning a QR code in the top right corner.

Our inventory & analysis

Part a, pages 1-2. This inventory and analysis examines the Mississippi delta as resilience in transitions, with data maps, making way for suggested solutions as outlined in the vision (pages 4-5), reflecting key challenges the area faces. For example, the challenges listed were; land change, population and flood depth, vegetation, salinity level population density, infrastructure, damage, land cover, and human impacts. References are accessible by scanning a QR code in the top right corner. There is also a SWOT analysis on page 2.