3.9 - Netherlands

Question 1

What defence has been built

Answer 1

9km storm surge barrier

Question 2

What’s done to lower water levels

Answer 2

Water released into flood plains
Farmland bought out and compensation
Can do bc wealth

Question 3

Houses and buildings are

Answer 3

Built on hollow pontoons so they can move yo and down with the tide to prevent submergence

Question 4

Netherlands have set aside how much for flood defence

Answer 4

€1 billion

Question 5

% of land vulnerable

Answer 5

66% is low-lying

Question 6

What has been placed along the coast and rivers

Answer 6

16.5km of dikes

Question 7

Delta program for flood risk management brings ho together

Answer 7

Water management experts, civil society, authorities from all levels of the state

Question 8

Name of flood risk management plan

Answer 8

Delta program

Question 9

Environmental impacts of 1953 flood

Answer 9

Fertile farmland flooded and ruined

200,000 livestock killed

Question 10

Social impacts of flood

Answer 10

Housing damaged, started to crumble from foundations as wooden
Belgium also affected

Question 11

What increases the economic risk

Answer 11

Have port of Rotterdam (450k kilotonnes of cargo)

Won’t be able to import/export

Question 12

Economic impacts of the 1953 flood

Answer 12

Roads so people couldn’t go to work

Public transport damaged so govt lost money

Question 13

How many people killed by the flood?

Answer 13

1400+