Perspectives on water bodies

In the quest for sustainable water management, it is often difficult to balance economical, social and ecological demands. This paper addresses this issue by discussing the difficulties that arise in attempting to identify competing claims at the actor level, and by asking how these competing claims affect the process of incorporating long-term perspectives into actual policy processes. The authors have used the concept of perspectives or frames to address the above questions, within the context of two Dutch water management projects : the first in the Western Scheldt Estuary and the second in Rijnland, a polder network in the west of the Netherlands. Actor level perspectives were sought and an analysis was carried out to find out what this would mean for the water management approaches adopted in each of these regions. From the results of this study, the authors come to the following three conclusions. First, actors involved in water management projects should be aware that while the goal of their project might seem very legitimate from one perspective, it can go against the priorities of actors holding another perspective and this clash can have significant impact on the processes and outcomes of the project. Secondly, the fact that the perspectives and visions of the stakeholders can not be known beforehand means that the process manager should show a high level of flexibility and adapt to the dynamic process. . Thirdly, the way that plans to meet project goals are designed have important impact on the outcome of efforts to reach a mutual decision and stakeholders should have ample opportunity to give their input during this process

Deliverable 3.1. Field trial framework for the use of knowledge concerning climate adaptation measures and their implementation

This field trial framework aims to ensure that the various field trials at the EVOKED case study sites are carried out, as much as possible, in a consistent manner such that they may be cross compared, and lessons may be drawn. We do so by describing a framework using the key aspects of EVOKED: • Climate services: the service of providing climate information in such a way that it supports decision-making, as well as benefiting society. Examples of such services are projections, trends, economic analysis • Living Lab approach: an action-oriented research approach with committed stakeholders who actively participate in a real-life test and experimentation environment (i.e. laboratory) to test hypothesis, in this case hypotheses concerning climate services as well as coming up with solutions for complex problems such as climate adaptation or risk and uncertainty assessments. • Information: the creation of information from climate data so that it becomes meaningful, useful for stakeholders and end-users in making decisions. A series of hypotheses are formulated for each of these key aspects to translate the theoretical concepts into a field trial framework. Thus the goal of the field trials is to find ways in which climate information meets the needs of the end-EU, Horizon Europe European Research Area for Climate Services JPI Climate The Research Council of Norway Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) NWO FORMA

Deliverable 3.3. Reports on execution of field trails at each case study site

The main objective of the field trials was to bring into practice the key aspects of EVOKED: the focus on climate services, the Living Labs approach, and the information design of the selected climate services for each of the EVOKED case study sites (Deltares, 2019). To support comparing the outcomes of these case studies, Deliverable 3.2 (Deltares, 2020) was developed to create a framework to structure the data that has been collected in the case studies as well as to draw lessons and conclusions based on a case comparison. The final objective as presented in the present report is “a systematic evaluation of the climate information designs and thus of the communicative qualities of currently used climate services; insight into the different information needs, perceptions of risk and uncertainty, and the responsibilities and roles of different stakeholder groups; a set of visualization principles and visualization strategies for stakeholder specific climate services.” (Deltares, 2019, p.17).EU, Horizon Europe European Research Area for Climate Services JPI Climate The Research Council of Norway Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) NWO FORMA

Het Deltaplan Hoge Zandgronden

In de loop van 2014 worden de Deltabeslissingen genomen. Hoewel deze nog niet definitief zijn, zijn de hoofdlijnen van de opgave duidelijk. Voor het Deltaplan Hoge Zandgronden (DHZ) van het Delta(deel)programma Zoetwater liggen de opgaven op het gebied van watertekorten en -overlast met consequenties voor diverse functies (landbouw, natuur, drinkwater, scheepvaart, industrie, recreatie, stedelijk gebied, bodemdaling en waterveiligheid). Een uitvoeringsprogramma voor deze opgaven is opgesteld, waarbij verschillende partijen betrokken zijn als stakeholders, maar ook als kostendragers. Het huidige Deltaprogramma biedt de kaders voor de nationale inbedding van dit regionale uitvoe-ringsprogramma, maar na de Deltabeslissingen is het nog niet duidelijk hoe de uitvoeringsorganisatie er uit ziet. Het advies van Teisman en Van Buuren (2014) benadrukt het belang van instandhouding van regionale fora voor afstemming, met name ook op het snijvlak van water en ruimte, en als bouw-steen voor een vitaal multilevel governance arrangement. Ook benadrukken zij het belang om uit-voering en strategievorming hand in hand te laten gaan

Organising knowledge generation and dissemination in the Dutch high-water protection programme–a sender-receiver approach

In 2012 the Dutch High-Water Protection Programme (HWPP) was initiated. This programme prioritised dike strengthening projects for the near future with a yearly budget of around 350 million Euros. A safety assessment 2011–2013 indicated the need to strengthen 748 km of dikes. To achieve this, it was recognised that generation and dissemination of state-of-the-art-knowledge was necessary. For this purpose, four Spatial and Technical Research Projects (STRPs) were initiated. The challenge for these STRPs is to generate and disseminate the developed knowledge that is relevant for other dike strengthening projects within the HWPP. This paper examines whether the STRPs have successfully undertaken activities to generate and disseminate new knowledge to relevant stakeholders. We examine how the generation and dissemination of knowledge from the STRPs to the HWP

Deliverable 3.2. Capacity building material for the field trials

In Deliverable 3.1 (Deltares, 2019) the theoretical background, research questions, hypotheses (also summarized in Section 2 of this document) and overall method have been described. This deliverable focuses on the workflow in the field trials and provides capacity materials (templates) to carry out the research. The workflow and templates are meant to help to: 1. Select the climate service(s) that will be adapted for the EVOKED project; 2. Identify ‘usability-gap(s)’ between the information given by the climate service(s) and the information needs of the end-user(s); 3. Think about a new, improved information design (i.e. the way in which information is presented – for a more elaborate explanation on the concept we refer to Deliverbale 3.1 (Deltares, 2019) of the selected climate service(s) to help bridge the aforementioned ‘usability-gap’ through the way information is presented to the user of the climate service(s); 4. To test the new information design (as an experiment). Finally, this document aims to create a coherent data management structure by using the same templates for each case study location. This enables both the cross-comparison between the case studies and the overall analysis regarding EVOKED-hypotheses.EU, Horizon Europe European Research Area for Climate Services JPI Climate The Research Council of Norway Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) NWO FORMA