Climate Resilient Urban Areas

Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther is Applied Research Professor of Water Innovation at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. He is a civil engineer, entrepreneur and researcher. Rutger is director and founding partner of three water innovation companies: DeltaSync, Blue21 and Indymo.

• Chapter 1: The five pillars of climate resilience in urban areas; Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther and Henk Ovink.- Chapter 2: Integration of water management and urban design for climate resilient cities; Nanco Dolman.- Chapter 3: Climate resilient urban retrofit at street level; Jeroen Kluck and Floris Boogaard.- Chapter 4: Flood resilience of critical buildings: assessment methods and tools; Manuela Escarameia and Andrew Tagg.- Chapter 5: Recovery Capacity: To Build Back Better.; Frans van de Ven, Fransje Hooimeijer and Piet Storm.- Chapter 6: Removing challenges for resilience building with support of the circular economy; Jeroen Rijke, Liliane Geerling, Nguyen Hong Quan and Nguyen Hieu Trung.- Chapter 7: Climate resilience in urban informal settlements: Towards a transformative upgrading agenda; Matthew French, Alexei Trundle, Inga Korte and Camari Koto.- Chapter 8: A transformative process for urban climate resilience: The case of Water as Leverage Resilient Cities Asia in Semarang, Indonesia; Naim Laeni, Henk Ovink, Tim Busscher, Wiwandari Handayani, and Margo van den Brink.- Chapter 9: Making the transition: transformative governance capacities for a resilient Rotterdam; Arnoud Molenaar, Katharina Hölscher, Derk Loorbach and Johan Verlinde.- Chapter 10: Future outlook: emerging trends and key ingredients for the transition to resilient delta cities; Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther.