In the Netherlands, flood risk has been managed through a modernist regime that remains stubbornly technocratic in its governance of water, ignoring local land-use in favor of metrics that rarely map onto a messy, unpredictable world. As climate change destabilizes calculations and landscapes, can planners find new methods of ecological repair? In the Netherlands, water management is stubbornly te
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