Coastal Management

Member Scientific Advisory Committee for climate adaptation of the Belgian coast (2020)
Advice to the government of Kerala (India) on short-term and long-term interventions to facilitate river and sediment outflow to the sea and measures to mitigate coastal erosion and adaptation to future sea-level rise (2019)
ToR for the development and implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management for the N-Egyptian coastal zone (GCF funding 4.7 million US$, 2019)
Advice to the Egyptian government on the feasibility of soft coastal protection structures, using dredged sediments from the coastal lagoons (2018)
Advice on seaward extension of Port Said to the Egyptian government and ToR for a "Port Said Coastal Zone Master Plan" (2016)
Advice to the Senegalese government and ToR for "Integrated study on solutions for the breach at the Senegal River mouth" (World Bank 2.2 million US$, 2015)
Advice to the Egyptian government and ToR for a study on shoreline management and ICZM for the N-Egyptian coast (EuropeAid 2.6 million EUR, 2014)
Jury member International workshop on urban planning options for Nouakchott, Mauritania (2014)
Advice to the Senegalese government on solutions for coastal erosion and inundation problems at Saint-Louis (2014)
Advice to the World Bank and ToR for a study on transboundary coastal erosion issues in West Africa (World Bank 200,000 US$, 2014)
Advice to the Government of Mauritania and ToR for an integrated study on coastal erosion and inundation problems at Nouakchott, Mauritania (2013)
Blue Economy Forum Summit at Qingdao (China), advice to the Government of Shandong Province on Blue Economic Growth (2011)
Co-ordinator of ENCORA, European Network on Coastal Research (EU FP6 3 million EUR, 2006)
Scientific assessment of the environmental impact of the extension of Rotterdam Harbour on the Wadden Sea ecosystem (2006)
Review editor of the chapter on Coastal Zones of the 4th IPCC Assessment Report, which was awarded the Peace Nobel prize (2006)
Chairman Shoreline Development Group, Dahlem Conference on Science and Coastal Management (1999)
Guest professor at the University of Kiel for a lecture course on Integrated Coastal Management (1999)
Member External Advisory Group of the EU Commission for FP5 Key-actions Water and Marine Ecosystems (1998)
Chairman of the Euroconference on Transdisciplinary Coastal Management Research (Spain), editor conference proceedings (1997)
Advisor of the German Ministry of Science and Technology on the future position of the Biological Institute Helgoland (1997)
Chairman of the European Coastal Inter Science Network CISNET funded by the European Science Foundation (1996)
Member Assessment Committee on Alternative Designs for the Storm Surge Barrier Rotterdam Waterway (1995)
Co-organiser of international IPCC conferences in Miami (1990) and Perth (1991); co-ordinator 1990 IPCC report on ICZM