Delft: Sand Engine
- Establishing nature-based solutions for coastal resilience
- Restoring ecosystems and their functions
- Developing climate change adaptation; improving risk management and resilience
The Dutch coastal zone is prone to flooding. The Netherlands has chosen to protect the coast by means of soft adaptive solutions such as (mega) suppletions with the aim of maintaining the coastline (…) Before the construction of the sand engine, some 12 million cubic metres of sand suppletions were dumped along the Dutch coast annually. ...