LOSS researchers Toms Wils and Dries Hegger supervised an MSc thesis by Julie Wellens. Peat meadow areas in the Netherlands are experiencing significant degradation due to intensive agricultural practices, leading to land subsidence, greenhouse gas emissions, and loss of biodiversity. Traditional governance and policy frameworks have prioritized economic interests over ecological needs, often implementing technical…

LOSS researchers Duygu Tolunay, Gilles Erkens, and Mariet Hefting published a new paper in Science of The Total Environment. Drained peatlands in temperate climates are under threat from climate change and human activities. The resulting decomposition of organic matter plays a major role in regulating the associated land subsidence rates, yet the determinants of aerobic…

The 4th LOSS consortium day was held in Amersfoort on 26 March 2024. As with the previous editions, the event was held in Dutch, and more info is available on the Dutch version of this page.

LOSS researchers Alfonso Prosperi and Mandy Korff published a new paper in the International Journal of Architectural Heritage: In this study, 2D and 3D modelling strategies are used to represent the behaviour of historical masonry buildings on strip foundations undergoing settlements. The application focuses on a two-story building, typical of the Dutch architectural heritage. An…

LOSS researchers Mandy van den Ende, Dries Hegger and Peter Driessen published a new paper in Environmental Policy and Governance: Governance of societal transformations toward sustainability is needed to address the fundamental system failures responsible for environmental problems. Possible transformation pathways range from radical shifts to more incremental change. Experimentation is seen as a form…

LOSS researcher Mandy van den Ende published a new paper in Water Governance (in Dutch, translated here): The ever-growing number of environmental problems that are given the ‘crisis’ label in the Netherlands is the result of a traditionally boundless belief in the malleability of the physical environment. Now that it is becoming increasingly clear that…

The NWA-LOSS project (Living on Soft Soils – Subsidence & Society) organised its third symposium on Thursday, November 2nd 2023. The event was be an in-person gathering, from 09:30 to 18:00 in Congresgebouw De Vereeniging in Utrecht. If you are a research, stakeholder or just interested in land subsidence, you are cordially invited to join…

LOSS researchers Philip Conroy and Ramon Hanssen published a new paper in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing: They introduce the term loss-of-lock to describe a specific form of coherence loss that results in the breakage of a synthetic aperture radar interferometric (InSAR) time series. Loss-of-lock creates a specific pattern in the coherence matrix…

LOSS researchers  Philip Conroy and Ramon Hanssen published a new paper in Geoderma:. They present SPAMS: Simple Parameterization for the Motion of Soils, a model to describe the motion of deformable soils in the Vadose zone, mainly peat and clay, herein called shallow soft soils. The SPAMS model estimates the reversible and irreversible vertical component…

LOSS researchers Manon Verberne, Kay Koster, and Peter Fokker published a new paper in JGR Earth Surface: This research targets disentangling shallow causes of anthropogenically induced subsidence in a reclaimed and urbanized coastal plain. The study area is the city of Almere, in the South Flevoland polder, the Netherlands, which is among the countries’ fastest…