Sediment management and stakeholder involvement

Complex bounded rationality in dyke construction. Path-dependency, lock-in in the emergence of the geometry of the Zeeland delta

In this article the theoretical concepts of path-dependency and lock-in are applied to the geometry of the Zeeland delta in the Netherlands. They are used to show that even very small and unpredictable events can cause systems to remain on a path that is practically impossible to leave because the costs of leaving are too high. As a result,...

Risk Perception and Risk Communication

Sediment management and Stakeholder Involvement

The dynamics of sedimentary systems and the whimsicality of policy processes

Background, Aims, and Scope. Sediment management in coastal zones is taking place in high complex environments. Present management options do not have a sophisticated way of dealing with the actual complexity of the physical and the social systems and with the unpredictability that is inherent with these systems. Therefore, a new approach in...