A Fragile Giant: Challenges and Opportunities in the Mississippi River Delta

At the southern edge of the United States, where the continent meets the Gulf of Mexico, lies one of the world’s most dynamic and troubled landscapes: the Mississippi River Delta. Once a land of abundance, this vast region of wetlands and waterways faces a...

The Netherlands in 2120

Climate change, urbanisation, biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather and increasing food production: these are just a few of the factors that help shape the spatial planning of the Netherlands. There appears to be a need to look to the fu...

New challenge has students design a ‘nature-based future’

During the Nature-Based Future Challenge, students learn that nature is key to a hopeful, green future. This international challenge has students collaborating in a pressure cooker to develop a future perspective for a delta. How can the flames be fanned? ...

Nature-based Future Challenge: the winning team designed context-specific solutions

The jury commended Team Delta Harmonics for tackling the complex problems of the Bangladesh River Delta at the root by focusing on the upstream region. The team competed with ten other international student teams and won the first prize of € 9000. ...