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Plenary keynote Clean Water & Ecosystem Restoration by Ellis Penning

Kick-off the subtheme of Clean Water & Ecosystem Restoration by Ellis Penning

Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration: linking high level policy ambitions to down-to-earth implementation of nature-based solutions.

Dr. Ellis Penning is an expert in the field of Nature based Solutions and ecohydraulic research with over 20 years of experience. She leads the Deltares strategic research program on Nature Based Solutions and carries out a variety of projects related to this subject, both in the national and international context. An aquatic ecologist by training, Ellis Penning is specifically focusing on the role of vegetation in aquatic systems, both from a flood risk and environmental quality point of view and how knowledge related to the natural dynamics of this vegetation helps in the assessment and design of Nature based Solutions (NbS) within a catchment scale perspective.

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