Overview
- Presents an in-depth empirical analysis of the role of experts in Dutch and American flood governance
- Features rich historical detail on the evolution of Dutch and American flood management approaches
- Considers the distributive implications of the shift from flood safety to spatial planning measures in flood governance
- Offers practical recommendations to ensure a legitimate policymaking process in flood governance spatial planning measures
Part of the book series: Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice (WGCMP)
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The introduction of spatial measures in flood governance involves more than the simple development of new policies and laws. Research has demonstrated that the implementation of spatial measures can have huge implications for how costs and responsibilities are divided between different levels of governance and between public and private actors, changing the whole organization behind flood governance. Both for the effectiveness and for the legitimacy of spatial flood governance strategies, it is important that these distributive implications are well understood.
This book describes the introduction of spatial measures in the context of two very different delta countries: the Netherlands and the United States. In the United States, a spatial flood governance strategy was already developed in de mid-20th century whereas in the Netherlands, a safety paradigm institutionalized over the course of the 20th century and spatial measures have only recently been introduced. By analyzing the science-policy interactions underlying the implementation of spatial measures in both countries, this book shows how under the influence of different types of experts (engineers in the Netherlands and social geographers in the United States) different spatial flood management strategies emerged with different distributive implications, each with its own challenges for effectiveness and legitimacy.
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Book Title: From Flood Safety to Spatial Management
Book Subtitle: Expert-Policy Interactions in Dutch and US Flood Governance
Authors: Emmy Bergsma
Series Title: Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96716-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96715-8Published: 08 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07236-0Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96716-5Published: 25 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-4961
Series E-ISSN: 2365-497X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 118
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Risk Management, Public Policy, Environmental Geography