A framework for evaluating flood risk governance
By M. Alexander, Sally Priest, Hannelore Mees. 2016
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Calls to strengthen flood risk governance are echoed across Europe amidst a growing consensus that floods will increase in the future. Accompanying the pursuit of societal resilience, other normative agendas relating legitimacy (e.g. accountability and public participation), and resource efficiency, have become attached to discussions concerning flood risk governance. Whilst these represent goals against which ‘success’ is socially and politically judged, lacking from the literature is a coherent framework to operationalise these concepts and evaluate the degree to which these are achieved. Drawing from cross-disciplinary and cross-country research conducted within the EU project STAR-FLOOD, this paper presents a framework for evaluating the extent to which flood risk governance arrangements support societal resilience, and demonstrate efficiency and legitimacy. Through empirical research in England, this paper critically reflects on the value of this approach in terms of identifying entry points to strengthen governance in the pursuit of these goals.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science
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- Hannelore Mees
- M. Kaufmann
- S. Bruzzone
- L. Lévy
- J. Lewandowski
- M. Alexander
Citations in the corpus
- Coproducing flood risk management through citizen involvement: insights from cross-country comparison in Europe (2016, background): “Correspondingly, a diverse set of strategies is delivered at multiple scales to address risk in a holistic way (Alexander et al. 2016b).”
- Toward more flood resilience: is a diversification of flood risk management strategies the way forward? (2016, unknown): “…elaboration on how strategies have been institutionalized in countries and how this has developed over time is presented in six publicly available national project reports (Alexander et al. 2016 b , Ek et al. 2016, Kaufmann et al. 2016, Larrue et al. 2016, Matczak et al. 2016, Mees et al. 2016).”