Peter Van Veelen Email & Phone Number

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

• Registered landscape architect and owner of Buro Waterfront. Buro Waterfront is offering specialized advice and facilitates collaboration in urban planning, coastal resilience and urban climate change adaptation.
• On behalf of the Delta Platform I developed a research by design study on extreme sea level rise adaptation strategies for the Oosterschelde estuary in Sealand with Rijkswaterstaat, Province of Zeeland, municipalities.
• I supported the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland with setting-up a living lab on sustainable water management and I coordinated a EU funding proposal for large-scale uptake of ground water storage solutions for the.
• I work with the World Wildlife Fund, Delft University of Technology and the Delta Platform to set up a living lab on sustainable sediment management in the Rijn-Maas estuary. This living lab will run for 2 years in the.
• I also initiated and organised an African Deltas Knowledge & Research Network meeting on behalf of the Delta Alliance during the Adaptation Futures conference in Cape Town in June 2018 Show less

Delft Area, Netherlands

• As coordinator Urban Deltas for the TU Delft Deltas, Infrastructure & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), I coordinated a cross-faculty research and education program focussing on challenges of urban deltas. My work included:
• Coordination students exchange workshop in the Volta Delta in Ghana and the Dutch delta
• Co-writing proposals and acquiring research project funding
• Member of international secretariat of the Delta Alliance
• Member of Global Centre of Excellence on Climate… Show more As coordinator Urban Deltas for the TU Delft Deltas, Infrastructure & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), I coordinated a cross-faculty research and education program.
• Member of Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation (GCECA) in Rotterdam Show less

Delft

As a PhD researcher at the TU Delft, department of Urbanism, I developed spatial concepts and planning strategies of integrating flood risk strategies with urban development processes. I have been involved in workshops on integrated and adaptive flood risk management in the Netherlands and several urbanized deltas such as New Orleans, New York, Houston.

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

As theme lead “adaptive urban development” within the Rotterdam Adaptation Strategy team, I coordinated and managed research projects on coastal climate adaptation such as multipurpose flood protection and adaptive strategy for the flood prone areas. For these projects, I was responsible for project design, contractual and financial agreements within.

Westland

Projects: transformation strategy for the Greenhouse horticulture area, masterplan Poelzone, design for a park and leisure area Groene Schakel, projectmanager landscape development plan.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

designer/researcher at the atelier at the Netherlands Institute for Spatial research (RPB). An international survey of spatial patterns in-between city and country. The study Tussenland was published May mei 2004, NAi Uitgevers.

Berlin Area, Germany

Master, Landscape Architecture

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Urbanism, Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

Urbanism