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DOI	10.1186/s12302-024-00928-3
	When, at what speed, and how? Resilient transformation of the Vesdre river basin (Belgium) following the 2021 floods
	de Herve, Mathilde de Goer; Pot, Wieke D.
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2190-4707
EISSN	2190-4715
起始页码	36
结束页码	1
卷号	36 期号:1
英文摘要	Background Dual crises happen when an acute shock unfolds in the context of a creeping crisis. The July 2021 floods in the Vesdre river basin (Wallonia, Belgium) is a typical case of such dual crises in the context of climate change. This study is based on 16 semi-structured interviews (conducted in Spring 2023) with 10 mayors, 4 representatives of the Public Service of Wallonia, 1 person working for the federal government, and 4 project managers, coupled with a document analysis (n = 13). It investigates the temporal strategies that connect short and long-term considerations in the aftermath of this disaster (timing, futuring, pacing, cyclical adaptation, and determining time horizons), at two different governmental levels: river basin and municipal level.Results In general, the window of opportunity to improve disaster resilience has been seized. Several studies were initiated by the Walloon region that shape the idea of an ideal future for the river basin and give recommendations for how to reach it. Unfortunately, those recommendations still come late compared to the temporal reality of the reconstruction process. Municipalities wish to strengthen disaster resilience as soon as possible, but they have to prioritize certain actions over others because of limited resources. The recommendations are considered flexible enough to adapt strategies to future contexts, but no monitoring and evaluation system for doing so has been implemented so far. In addition, clear policy agendas with transformational goals are scarce, and they diverge between the river basin and the municipalities. All these temporal strategies are shaped by elements of the institutional policy arrangement: resources, which affect them all, as well as actors, power, and formal rules, which affect some. These policy dimensions notably slow down the implementation of disaster resilience strategies and limit the determination of consensual time horizons.Conclusions The temporal strategies are passively shaped by the policy arrangement dimensions to a greater extent than actively chosen by the stakeholders. A structural transformation of the institutional policy arrangement is therefore needed to enable more coherent temporal strategies between different governance levels and to facilitate the consideration of long-term resilience during the recovery process from disasters.
英文关键词	Disaster resilience; Long-term governance; Dual crisis; Floods; Belgium Wallonia Vesdre river basin; Policy arrangement approach; Temporal strategies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001229355000001
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES EUROPE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/305017
作者单位	Karlstad University; Karlstad University; Karlstad University; Wageningen University & Research
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	de Herve, Mathilde de Goer,Pot, Wieke D.. When, at what speed, and how? Resilient transformation of the Vesdre river basin (Belgium) following the 2021 floods[J],2024,36(1).
APA	de Herve, Mathilde de Goer,&Pot, Wieke D..(2024).When, at what speed, and how? Resilient transformation of the Vesdre river basin (Belgium) following the 2021 floods.ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES EUROPE,36(1).
MLA	de Herve, Mathilde de Goer,et al."When, at what speed, and how? Resilient transformation of the Vesdre river basin (Belgium) following the 2021 floods".ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES EUROPE 36.1(2024).