The future of human life in the world's river deltas depends on the success of water management. To deal with uncertainties about the future, policymakers in the Netherlands have used scenarios to develop water management strategies for the coastal zone of the Rhine-Meuse delta. In this paper we reflect on six decades of scenario use in the Netherlands, and provide recommendations for future st...

Large-scale reconstruction measures are being prepared and implemented in river basins of north-western Europe for the purpose of flood defence, ecological rehabilitation and infrastructural improvements. These measures will have far-reaching consequences for the physical structure, hydrodynamics, and hence for the ecological functioning and biodiversity of riverfloodplain ecosystems. River man...

The Roman Empire of the second century was a superpower that, in relative terms, dominated its world as much as the United States does today. In 166 AD, a plague broke out od pandemic proportions. The pandemic ravaged the entire extent of the Roman Empire, from its eastern frontiers in Iraq to its western frontiers on the Rhine River and Gaul, modern France, and western Germany. The disease is ...

Abstract We make use of historical data on water levels the Rhine river to analyze impact weather-related supply shocks economic activity in Germany. Our analysis shows that low lead severe disruptions inland transportation and cause a significant economically meaningful decrease activity. In month with 30 days water, industrial production Germany declines by about 1 percent, ceteris paribus. h...

Ketsch, Heidelberg and Ecuador Herbert was born in Ketsch, a small village near the Rhine river where he grew up fishing for pike with his grandfather. He did his Ph.D. at the nearby University of Heidelberg with Michael Trendelenburg studying the transcription of protein coding genes in Xenopus oocytes (Steinbeisser et al., 1989). After graduating he won an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation po...

The effects of four climate change scenarios for the Netherlands on the distribution of the shipworm upstream of the Rhine-Meuse estuary are described. Global warming will cause dry and warmer summers and decreased river discharges. This will extend the salinity gradient upstream in summer and fall and may lead to attacks on wooden structures by the shipworm. Scenarios including one or two degr...

Lake Constance is the third largest lake in Central Europe. The river Rhine, which passes the lake, imports a significant amount of mineralic particles. Their transport and sedimentation within the lake is of importance for a number of applications, for example ship traffic, pumping stations for extraction of drinking water, hydraulic engineering, fishery, and ecology. Only satellites offer a c...

In the Weichselian, the Lower Rhine in the Dutch-German border region has used three courses, dissecting ice-marginal topography inherited from the Saalian. In the Late Weichselian, the three courses functioned simultaneously, with the central one gaining importance and the outer ones abandoning. This study aims to reconstruct the fluvial development and forcings that culminated in abandonment ...