earth report | go with the flow: living with floods, Netherlands
submitted by europelmbh
on 03/08/16
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In the Netherlands two out of three people already live below sea level. Faced with a further rise in sea level of up to 0.8 metres, the country is developing a radical national action plan that turns three centuries of flood engineering on its head. Soft engineering allows land to be sacrificed to rivers and the sea and learning to live with flood waters rather trying to hold them back. With thanks to UNEP and the EU.
