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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Effectiveness of nitrogen-mitigation measures in dry habitats

In the Netherlands low-productive habitat types have for decades been affected by high nitrogen deposition. Nitrogen-mitigation measures have been taken to maintain and restore these low-productive habitat types.…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Drought in the Pleistocene uplands of Southern, Central and Eastern Netherlands

The summer of 2018 was particularly dry in the Netherlands, which led to water supply problems for agriculture and nature in the Pleistocene uplands. This project focuses on…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Combined effects of climate change and nitrogen deposition

Nature areas in the Netherlands are under pressure from a combination of nitrogen deposition and climate change. More knowledge about the influence of high nitrogen deposition on nature…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
User-friendly shell improves applicability of PROBE-dunes

Currently the PROBE model offers a user-friendly method to conduct ecohydrological calculations in the ‘inlands’. With this project, a new version is being made within the same accessible shell…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Nitrogen and Dutch nature areas

Nature is under pressure in the Netherlands. Most of the Natura 2000 areas in our country are not doing well at the moment (as also pointed out in this article in the Volkskrant). Through its research and…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Further development of Water Vision Nature

The Water Vision Nature (WWN) tool is being developed in phases. In the first phase, a user-friendly shell was created on the basis of existing knowledge. Thanks to the contributions of numerous…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Development of WaterVision Nature

WaterVision Nature (WWN) is a tool that calculates the effects of climate change and water management on terrestrial vegetation in nature areas. Policy-makers and area managers can now take better account of the consequences for nature of…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Effective restoration of herb- and fauna-rich grasslands in dry sandy areas

In this research project we seek an effective manner of transforming species poor, dry grasslands into herb- and fauna-rich grasslands. On the basis of this research, and in…

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Experts

Arvid van Dam
Scientific researcher
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Arvid van Dam

Scientific researcher

Arvid van Dam is a researcher in the Innovation & Valorisation team. As an anthropologist, he is interested in the tensions and opportunities that may arise between different stakeholders in…

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arvid.van.dam@kwrwater.nl

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Edu Dorland PhD
Manager Project manager
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Edu Dorland PhD

Manager Project manager

Edu Dorland has since 2016 been leader of the Ecohydrology team, heading a diverse group of ecologists and hydrologists. As a project manager since 2012, Edu has also worked on…

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edu.dorland@kwrwater.nl

06-46916697

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Michiel Hootsmans PhD MSc
Senior scientific researcher Project manager
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Michiel Hootsmans PhD MSc

Senior scientific researcher Project manager

Michiel Hootsmans is a senior researcher in aquatic ecology. In this position, he is in charge of the development, broadening and deepening of a new ecological research niche in the…

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Michiel.Hootsmans@kwrwater.nl

06-22951843

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Developing knowledge and measures to make high sandy grounds climate-robust

21 July 2020 — Making the high-elevation sandy grounds in the Netherlands resilient to climate change: over the next four years, the…

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W orking visit to Zeeland by Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen

17 July 2020 — Last Tuesday, 14 July, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, paid a working visit to…

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KWR collaborated on the book “Het vroon ontrafeld”

13 May 2020 — The recently published Het vroon ontrafeld: veertig jaar waterwinning en natuurbeheer in de Middel- en Oostduinen op Goeree…

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Principal Scientist and ecohydrologist Flip Witte leaves KWR

15 May 2019 — For the last thirteen and a half years, Flip Witte has integrated the scientific disciplines of hydrology, soil…

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Water Indicators show impact of water management and climate change on agriculture and nature

29 June 2017 — With the Nature Water Indicator and the Agriculture Water Indicator one can obtain more detail and user-friendly predictions…

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Doctoral research into salt exposure and its impact on plants in low-lying polders

15 June 2017 — On 7 June, Sija Stofberg obtained her doctorate at Wageningen University & Research for her research into the…

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Water Sector

Drones: opportunities and risks for the water companies

24 November 2016 — Drones, or RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) as they’re officially known, can be used to monitor and inspect…

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Sustainability

Sustainable use of freshwater resources

Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is not a given. Globally, the water sector is…

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Climate change and resilience

The water sector needs practice-oriented research to help it confront the wide-ranging consequences of climate…

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