Episode 182 (18 Apr 2022): Jack is an associate climate risk and resilience engineer with Arup based in San Francisco. He specializes in flood risk engineering, multi-hazard resilience planning, and sea level rise adaptation. He previously worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers as a water resources engineer and also spent one year in Delft on a Fulbright Fellowship focused on comparing Dutch and American approaches to accounting for SLR in the planning of large scale flood infrastructure.
Ties is an associate Ties-shaped engineer at Studio Ties and Flows Productions, based in Molenpolder, Netherlands. He is affiliated with Delft University of Technology and World Wildlife Fund. He specializes in flood risk, the Dutch national water system, nature-inclusive engineering and landscape quality, on which he wrote a PhD Tiesis in 2017. When he was still young, he designed floating houses and cities. At the moment, he writes for national newspapers to influence the Dutch policy debate about sea level rise, housing and spatial planning, among other projects. His hobbies are, among other hobbies, macro economics!
Ties's original post (in Dutch)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deltadebat-1-verstedelijking-anders-verdelen-over-ties-rijcken/
Delta commission report -- https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/01/learning-from-the-dutch/
Ties's Tiesis ("EMERGO - the Dutch flood risk system since 1986," in English)
http://www.flowsplatform.nl/#/emergo---the-dutch-flood-risk-system-since-1986-1508416523282
Ties's favorite paper ("The End of the Netherlands," in Dutch)
https://flowsplatform.nl/#/het-einde-van-nederland-1581499146796
David's Little Book of The Commons
https://www.kysq.org/lbc/