STAR-FLOOD: combining legal science with policy science by studying flood risk management
Maria Kaufmann (RU)
Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld (UU)
31-10-13
STAR-FLOOD
STrengthening And Rede-signing European FLOOD
risk practices: Towards appropriate and resilient flood risk governance arrangements
International setting of six European countries Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Poland, Sweden & the Netherlands
Special: Combining legal and policy science
Starting point
Diversification Leads to more resilience
Implementation needs to beappropriate (properly institutionally embedded in physical and social context)
Problem: little known about FRGovernanceArrangement (actors, discourse, rules, resources)
Necessary to explain regional differences, success, failure
Successful implementation requests:
Diverse FRSs diverse FRGAsBroadening and linking FRSs needs
innovative FRGA’sRelationship between FRS and FRGAs
Methodology
Analytical framework: Policy Arrangements Approach (PAA)
Explanatory framework
Factors of stability and
change
Evaluation framework
Resilience
Appropriateness
The Netherlands: 3 cases
Westergouwe/Zuidplaspolder
Nijmegen: Waalsprong
Dordrecht
Shifts in Dutch flood risk management?
Water Test(Watertoets)
Flood ProtectionProgramme (Hoogwater-Beschermings-programma )
MLSSecurity regions (veiligheidsregio’s)
First voluntaryinsurance available
Examples
MLS- Room for the River(Ruimte voor de Rivier)
Codifying discourse into lawDiscourse
- traditional: technocratic discourse
Changing discourse- 1970s discourse of legitimacy/ democratisation of society- 1970s Environmental movement
- Integrated water management: “battle against water” to “accommodating water”
2. Legal response: changing discourse
- SPKD: Room for the River
- Water Test (Watertoets)
Trigger: high water discharges of 1993/1995
1. Legal response: strengthening of traditional discourse
- Major Rivers Delta Act (Deltawet Grote Rivieren)
- Flood Defence Structures Act (Wet op de waterkering)
Law:
-1st Delta Act
- Safety standards