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JURISDICTIONS AS IMPEDIMENTS TO FLOODPLAIN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
Lambley D.B.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb01989.x
Subject(s) - flood myth , floodplain , flooding (psychology) , business , environmental planning , government (linguistics) , land use planning , environmental resource management , land use , geography , civil engineering , economics , engineering , archaeology , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , psychotherapist
The irregularity of flooding in Australia reinforces an attitude that the risk posed by a rare event is acceptable. Disparate flood‐related policies, fragmented responsibility and disharmony are often features of the relationship between the three spheres of government and amongst their agencies. The functions and powers of the various jurisdictions often operate to impede optimum land use planning and management of flood‐prone areas at great social cost. This paper discusses these spheres of influence and shows by example how those impediments are signs of institutional wooden‐headedness.