Episode 43: A journalist once described Ties Rijcken as a '21st century renaissance man'. Currently he is semi-focused as chief editor of the professional magazine TU Delft DeltaLinks, member of the Lek dike landscape quality supervisory team, and founder of Flows: a startup internet platform (http://flowsplatform.nl/about) to support water infrastructure development through visualisation and stakeholder participation. He would like to use Flows technology to benefit low-income countries.

Ties is probably the only water professional in the world with a BSc in Geophysics, MSc in Industrial Design and PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. He has written 100+ articles on water systems thinking and landscape quality design, often bringing a "wabi" perspective (derived from Japanese design philosophy) on the interaction between nature and technology.

Ties is passionate about using science to support policy, fostering participation, and landscapes that make us feel alive.

This episodes motto: "Plan for risk. Experience uncertainty."

Its extended title is "Amsterdam is safe from rising seas... but not safe from climate chaos."

Ties's PhD dissertation ("The Dutch flood risk system since 1986"):

http://flowsplatform.nl/#/emergo---the-dutch-flood-risk-system-since-1986-1508416523282____382____

David's post on climate chaos: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1125

and "The Netherlands has no Plan B"

https://www.vn.nl/rising-sea-levels-netherlands/