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Climate adaptation requires innovative approaches to address collaborative knowledge exchange and multidisciplinary problem solving. For over a decade, ClimateScan has provided an open-source platform to map urban resilience and existing climate adaptation solutions implemented all over the world. Apart from providing data, this tool also supports a citizen science approach, contributing to active stakeholder engagement. This study aims to develop and apply calculation methods and visualisation techniques to the database in order to generate comprehensive insights into climate adaptation patterns and their contribution to urban resilience in the Netherlands. Initial indications of analysed data show that storage capacities of integrated stormwater infrastructure, such as bioswales and wetlands, have increased significantly over the last 20 years resulting in close to a minimum of 1,6 million m3 storage volume. This trend is evident in both large urban areas as well as small villages, thereby supporting sustainable climate adaptation strategies. Through the application of this open-source tool, it is possible to engage a wide range of stakeholders to contribute to developing the database for a specific area.
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Cape Town faces a complex and interlinked set of climate-related challenges, including recurring droughts, flooding, intensifying heat stress and biodiversity loss. These impacts are further amplified by rapid urbanization, pollution (often due to poor infrastructure and service delivery), ageing water infrastructure and persistent socio-economic inequality that limits equitable access to safe and reliable water service (Aiyetan, 2025). Measures such as wetlands, bioswales, permeable paving, detention basins, rain gardens, stormwater retention ponds and green roofs/walls offer various benefits and co-benefits by leveraging natural processes to improve water quality, regulate floods, enhance rainwater infiltration, restore ecological functioning and deliver social benefits. Despite their potential, public awareness remains low, while implementation across Cape Town often remains uneven, fragmented, and highly context dependent. This review aims to examine how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Blue-Green
Infrastructure (BGI) are leveraged as innovative design-integrated solutions that reinforce more adaptive, resilient and water-secure urban infrastructure, and how their effective design and implementation can contribute to achieving sustainable development goals (Browder et al., 2019).
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The study addresses the need for interdisciplinary, hands-on, community-engaged learning models to tackle climate-driven water challenges. Traditional education is often inadequate in equipping young water professionals with the necessary practical, interdisciplinary competencies required to address these complex issues through integrative, real-world experiences. Two international experiential learning platforms, the Wetskills Water Challenges and ClimateCafé, have emerged as valuable approaches to bridge this gap by engaging students and young professionals in direct community collaboration and evidencebased problem-solving. This study explores how these complementary programmes can be strategically integrated to improve climate resilience research, enhance stakeholder engagement, and promote youth capacity development in the water sector.
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Onderzoek in Arnhem leert dat de infiltratiecapaciteiten van doorlatende verharding en regenwatertuinen voldoende is om forse buien te verwerken maar verschillen in tijd en ruimte. Bij goed ontwerp, aanleg en beheer kunnen deze regenwatervoorzieningen een goede bijdrage leveren aan het vasthouden, bergen en afvoeren van regenwater in het stedelijk gebied.
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Door de extreme regenval van 2024 werd in veel delen van Nederland schade en overlast veroorzaakt. Floris Boogaard, expert stedelijk waterbeheer bij Deltares, pleit voor de aanleg van een wadi in elke straat als oplossing voor de toenemende gevolgen van klimaatverandering. Wadi’s, die dienen als waterberging, kunnen veel van de negatieve effecten van hevige regenbuien opvangen. Om deze klimaatadaptieve maatregelen beter uit te leggen en het vertrouwen van bewoners te winnen, trok Floris deze zomer naar Groningen.
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'Terwijl we klimaatverandering proberen tegen te gaan, ontkomen we er inmiddels ook niet meer aan om ons aan te passen aan de gevolgen ervan. We zullen moeten omgaan met wateroverlast, droogte en hitte. Gelukkig zijn er mooie, creatieve en bovenal groene oplossingen in opkomst. Bijvoorbeeld de wadi, die in Nederland aan een opmars bezig is.'
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