A comprehensive assessment of multilayered safety (meerlaagsveiligheid) in flood risk management

Multilayered Safety (MLS) is seen as the next step in Dutch flood risk management. In the last decades the idea that only flood defenses can prevent floods gave way to the realization prevention can also be implemented along other lines, e.g. giving the rivers more space. The next thought was that next to preventing floods it should be possible to reduce the loss due to flooding. Therefore, MLS is meant to introduce comprehensive flood risk...