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Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions
Author(s) -
van Buuren Arwin,
Lawrence Judy,
Potter Karen,
Warner Jeroen F.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/ropr.12300
Subject(s) - flood myth , flood risk management , climate change , adaptation (eye) , adaptive management , hazard , adaptive capacity , environmental planning , adaptive strategies , risk management , environmental resource management , adaptive behaviour , business , risk analysis (engineering) , political science , geography , economics , ecology , finance , archaeology , psychology , cognitive science , physics , optics , biology
Climate change adaptation creates significant challenges for decision makers in the flood risk‐management policy domain. Given the complex characteristics of climate change, adaptive approaches (which can be adjusted as circumstances evolve) are deemed necessary to deal with a range of uncertainties around flood hazard and its impacts and associated risks. The question whether implementing adaptive approaches is successful highly depends upon how the administrative tradition of a country enable or hinder applying a more adaptive approach. In this article, we discern how the administrative tradition in the Netherlands, England, and New Zealand impact upon the introduction of adaptive flood risk management approaches. Using the concept of administrative traditions, we aim to explain the similarities and/or differences in how adaptive strategies are shaped and implemented in the three different state flood management regimes and furthermore, which aspects related to administrative traditions are enablers or barriers to innovation in these processes.