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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026)
Water & Heritage for Sustainable Development
Published: 2025-11-18

methodologies and case studies

  • Allowing Natural Sedimentation in the Nieuwe Waterweg to Reduce Salinity Intrusion and the Effects of Sea Level Rise
    Maarten Kleinhans, Silke Baltussen, Eise Nota, Jana Cox, Han Meijer, Jasper Hugtenburg

    The Nieuwe Waterweg is the artificial mouth of the Rhine and Meuse Rivers in the Netherlands and an important shipping channel for the Port of Rotterdam. The channel, about a half-kilometer wide, is dredged to depths of more than 16 m to allow navigation. This substantial depth has adverse effects on flood safety, ecology and salinity intrusion in the lower river system. Mitigating these effects through engineering is costly and increasingly unviable with rising sea levels. A straightforward, nature-based alternative is to allow natural sedimentation, gradually making the channel...

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Call for papers: Special Issue on Brazil Post-COP30

2025-09-23

Water as Heritage: Co-creating Water-Based Design Strategies for Brazil Post-COP30

We are pleased to invite contributions to the Blue Papers: Water and Heritage in Sustainable Development for a special issue on Brazil and COP30 in Belém do Pará. With the Amazon as a biocultural landmark, this issue seeks reflections on water, culture, and heritage as drivers of sustainable development and climate justice.

To submit your contribution, please follow the section "Submissions."

For inquiries regarding the suitability of contribution topics, please contact the editor-in-chief, Prof. Dr. Ing. Carola Hein ([email protected]), or the guest editors for this issue, Mila Avellar Montezuma ([email protected]) and Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin ([email protected]).

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