It also degrades ecosystems that rely on the natural ebb and flow of river processes. The idea of allowing rivers to reclaim space on their floodplains is not new. In the Netherlands, the Room for ...

The Netherlands has a long and varied history ... building with nature' and 'room for the river'. The 'building with nature' approach moves away from engineered coastal protection structures ...

In the Netherlands, the Room for the River programme was a response to flooding in 1995 that led to large-scale evacuations of people and cattle. In England, predictions that economic risks ...