'Building with nature': The new Dutch approach to coastal and river works

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-24

  de Vriend, Huib ^a   van Koningsveld, Mark ^b   Aarninkhof, Stefan ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environment; Sea defences; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTS; LAND RECLAMATION;

BUILDING WITH NATURES; ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL PROCESS; NAVIGATION CHANNELS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH; SEA DEFENCE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COASTAL PROTECTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HARBOR; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABILITY;

NETHERLANDS;

OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84896647749     PISSN: 0965089X     EISSN: 17517672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/cien.13.00003     Document Type: Article

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