Assessing the vulnerability of a Dutch river dyke to rising water levels ; 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering(ICASP14)

PUBLISHED ; Dykes provide protection from the risk of flooding to approximately 60% of the Netherlands, by area. Unfortunately, most of the country?s major cities lie within this zone, placing a large proportion of the population at risk should these flood defences fail. In total the Netherlands have over 3800 km of primary flood defences protecting the coast and inland river systems with another 14000km protecting individual polders. Recent flood events in Europe caused by extreme rainfall have raised concerns about the ability of the Dutch river dykes to resist similar events. This paper des... Mehr ...