Berry Gersonius

Lecturer in Urban Flood Resilience



B. Gersonius, MSc
Biography

Berry Gersonius (MSc in Civil Engineering) joined UNESCO-IHE in March 2006 as a lecturer in Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Systems. The scope of his work covers education and supervision of MSc research in the field of flood resilience of urban systems as well as asset management. Main research areas are the operationalization of resilience in context of urban flooding and the development of a whole life cycle cost model for water related infrastructure. Besides that he is involved with an international umbrella project on Urban Flood Management. In addition, he is working in the dissemination of the SWITCH project, which involves a consortium of 32 organisations from 13 countries under coordination of UNESCO-IHE in partnership with the European Union - DG Research.

Key Publications:

Zevenbergen, C., Gersonius, B., Veerbeek, W., and Herk, S. van (2008) Challenges in urban flood management: travelling across spatial and temporal scales. Journal of flood risk management 1(2), 81-88

Gersonius, B. (2008) Can resilience support integrated approaches to urban drainage management? In: 11ICUD Conference proceedings.

Gersonius, B., Zevenbergen, C., Puyan, N., and Billah, M.M.M. (2008) Efficiency of private flood proofing of new buildings : adapted redevelopment of a floodplain in the Netherlands. In: Proceedings International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, London. D. Proverbs, C.A. Brebbia and E. Penning-Rowsell (Eds). WIT Transactions on ecology and the environment; 118. ISBN: 978-1-84564-132-0.

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