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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.02.006
	Varieties of flood risk governance in Europe: How do countries respond to driving forces and what explains institutional change?
	Wiering M.; Kaufmann M.; Mees H.; Schellenberger T.; Ganzevoort W.; Hegger D.L.T.; Larrue C.; Matczak P.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	44
英文摘要	Floods are challenging the resilience of societies all over the world. In many countries there are discussions on diversifying the strategies for flood risk management, which implies some sort of policy change. To understand the possibilities of such change, a thorough understanding of the forces of stability and change of underlying governance arrangements is required. It follows from the path dependency literature that countries which rely strongly on flood infrastructures, as part of flood defense strategies, would be more path dependent. Consequently there is a higher chance to find more incremental change in these countries than in countries that have a more diversified set of strategies. However, comparative and detailed empirical studies that may help scrutinize this assumption are lacking. To address this knowledge gap, this paper investigates how six European countries (Belgium, England, France, The Netherlands, Poland and Sweden) essentially differ with regard to their governance of flood risks. To analyze stability and change, we focus on how countries are responding to certain societal and ecological driving forces (ecological turn; climate change discourses; European policies; and the increasing prevalence of economic rationalizations) that potentially affect the institutional arrangements for flood risk governance. Taking both the variety of flood risk governance in countries and their responses to driving forces into account, we can clarify the conditions of stability or change of flood risk governance arrangements more generally. The analysis shows that the national-level impact of driving forces is strongly influenced by the flood risk governance arrangements in the six countries. Path dependencies are indeed visible in countries with high investments in flood infrastructure accompanied by strongly institutionalized governance arrangements (Poland, the Netherlands) but not only there. Also more diversified countries that are less dependent on flood infrastructure and flood defense only (England) show path dependencies and mostly incremental change. More substantial changes are visible in countries that show moderate diversification of strategies (Belgium, France) or countries that ‘have no strong path yet’ in comprehensive flood risk governance (Sweden). This suggests that policy change can be expected when there is both the internal need and will to change and a barrage of (external) driving forces pushing for change. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change; European directives; Flood risk management; Institutional change; Path dependency; Water policy
学科领域	barrage; climate change; disaster management; empirical analysis; environmental protection; European Union; flooding; governance approach; investment; policy reform; resilience; risk assessment; water planning; Belgium; England; France; Netherlands; Sweden; United Kingdom
语种	英语
scopus关键词	barrage; climate change; disaster management; empirical analysis; environmental protection; European Union; flooding; governance approach; investment; policy reform; resilience; risk assessment; water planning; Belgium; England; France; Netherlands; Sweden; United Kingdom
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117261
作者单位	Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Thomas van Aquinostreet 3, Nijmegen, 6525 GD, Netherlands; University of Antwerp, Research Group Environment & Society, Belgium; University François Rabelais, Tours, France; Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University, Netherlands; Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Netherlands; University of Paris Est Créteil, Paris School of Planning, France; Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wiering M.,Kaufmann M.,Mees H.,et al. Varieties of flood risk governance in Europe: How do countries respond to driving forces and what explains institutional change?[J],2017,44.
APA	Wiering M..,Kaufmann M..,Mees H..,Schellenberger T..,Ganzevoort W..,...&Matczak P..(2017).Varieties of flood risk governance in Europe: How do countries respond to driving forces and what explains institutional change?.Global Environmental Change,44.
MLA	Wiering M.,et al."Varieties of flood risk governance in Europe: How do countries respond to driving forces and what explains institutional change?".Global Environmental Change 44(2017).