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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
Successful
implementation
requests:
Diversification
Leads to more resilience
Diverse FRSs  diverse FRGAs
Implementation needs to be
Broadening and linking FRSs needs
innovative FRGA’s
Relationship between FRS and FRGAs
 Problem: little known about
FRGovernanceArrangement
discourse, rules, resources)
 Necessary to explain regional
differences, success, failure
(actors,
appropriate
(properly institutionally embedded in
physical and social context)
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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?
Examples
Water Test
(Watertoets)
Flood Protection
Programme
(HoogwaterBeschermingsprogramma )
MLS
- Room for
the River
(Ruimte voor
de Rivier)
MLS
Security
regions
(veiligheids
regio’s)
First
voluntary
insurance
available
Codifying discourse into law
Discourse
- traditional: technocratic
discourse
Law:
-1st Delta Act
- Safety standards
Changing discourse
- 1970s discourse of legitimacy/ democratisation of society
- 1970s Environmental movement
- Integrated water management: “battle against water” to “accommodating water”
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)
2.
Legal response: changing
discourse
- SPKD: Room for the River
- Water Test (Watertoets)