Climate change in the Netherlands - Pioneering coastal management | DW Documentary

Great & informative documentary 👍. Dutch are experts at coastal management.The world really needs Dutch expertise during this time of climate change and rising sea levels.

The Dutch are really clever when it comes to agriculture. I know they play a big part in Essex county in Canada and the greenhouse industry.

To be fair grass has always played a vital role in keeping the sand dunes together to keep the sea out. That's why the intire coast is a protected area and at most points you're not allowed on the grass. Same with house boats in the Netherlands, they've been around for ever. They used to be for poor people and where unregistered, nowadays they're really popular and ridiculously expensive.

Great docu but I laughed out loud when the graphic of the Netherlands showed Yerseke on the place of Amsterdam, Yerseke is on the middle island in the south west.

Meanwhile, in Italy everyone's praying for rain to avoid severe drought🌧

That's great. At least one country has started to implement measures to minimise the effects of rising sea level

If you're serious about climate change, the most important thing is not to give up, not to give up, not to run away, and to keep believing.

Very interesting,even though I'm already very aware what the Dutch are up to when it comes to fighting the effects of a changing climate; for I'm Dutch myself and keep a keen eye on them living in New Zealand. And what I like about the Dutch is the fact they are practical and know you can't fight a changing climate but instead you have to adapt to it's consequences. I especially like the idea of floating cities,and think they need floating or natural barriers around them to lessen the effects of storm tides. Here in Auckland/New Zealand our mangroves are getting bigger and more widespread by the decade. This is in the many inlets of the sea we have;in the more secluded areas so to speak... I wonder if the Dutch would put their mind to trial mangroves in the Netherlands for storm protection of their future floating cities? And yeah!...Bangladesh could use the floating cities surrounded by mangroves too...

This is a very interesting documentary particularly that it tackles potential solutions to climate change. Keep it up DW Documentary!

Een hele interessante documentaire! Wel triest om te vernemen dat sommige onderzoekers lastiggevallen worden met hatemails. Bizar! Ik waardeer het werk van de onderzoekers van het NIOZ.

Fantastic documentary! Lot of respect for the Netherlands!!

lovely! thanks DW

DW documentaries are always brilliant... Just watch it @1.5x speed

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. If you put rising sea levels in a cup it becomes the cup. Water can flow or crash. Be water my friend - Bro Lee

Id imagine the floating village at the end, also experiances cooler temperatures in the summer, as it has less heat absorbing materials surrounding the area...like concreate, or asphalt.

There is nothing new with seaweed farming. It has been there at least since the 16th century (Korea / Japan). FAO reported that world production in 2019 was over 35 million tonnes.

Glad Bangladesh was mentioned. 63% of the population lives in rural areas. The main seaports, Chottogram and Khulna, are also at risk. Many thousands of people of the coastal area have had to move from ancestral land to the capital. Salinisation of land, erosion and the threat of storm surges cause displacement. The countries responsible for the sea level rise should pay for a Netherlands-style sea defence system.

Trapping the sediment and growing with the sea level - that's a very interesting idea, I hope it will work.

God bless Europe ❤,, God bless all over the world,,

Excellent documentary as always DW, much appreciated.