Strategische Agenda 2022-2025

22 Chapter 3 Strategic directions: our priorities Water and the subsurface, for example, play an important role in the missions for the energy transition and sustainable food production. Through this mission area, we contribute to the structuring and management of water systems in such a way that energy and food can be produced sustainably. In Safe deltas, we focus primarily on the following question: which action perspectives can we develop to protect the growing population and economy from extreme events, extreme weather and geological extremes? This mission area focuses on determining, predicting and managing risks, crisis management and disaster management resulting from extreme natural phenomena such as drought, flooding, extreme erosion and landslides. This also includes the consequences of extreme geological events such as tsunamis and earthquakes due to land subsidence The Resilient infrastructure we need for the functioning of a sustainable and climate-resilient world, as well as for protection from extreme events, is at the heart of this mission area. We have knowledge about the system and the objects but we already have to take major uncertainties and more extreme events into account. Figure 3.2 Mission-driven work at Deltares We have adopted national and international ambitions and missions as our point of departure and stated them in terms of four mission areas: four perspectives for how we see our work in the delta. ‘We continuously switch between integrated approaches and local solutions. A unique knowledge domain’