Controversies in water management: Frames and mental models

Kolkman, M.J.; Veen, A. van der; Geurts, Petrus A.T.M.

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2007.05.005

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“…Recent research literature highlights the important role of participatory processes for social learning (Cundill et al, 2012;Biggs et al, 2011;Pahl-Wostl et al, 2008), although only a very limited body of evaluation studies on this issue exists, and these expectations have been neither clearly supported nor dismissed (Muro and Jeffrey, 2008). Whereas some descriptive case studies report a substantial increase of mutual understanding when stakeholders had exchanged their views during participatory processes Borowski et al, 2008), others observed a hardening, or even a polarisation, of the standpoints (Kolkman et al, 2007;Gray, 1997). Empirical studies using systematic repeated measurements have, however, provided some evidence that small-scale participatory processes enhance stakeholders' familiarity with others stakeholders' views and increase their consensus for future developments (Garmendia and Stagl, 2010;Buchecker et al, 2010).…”

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How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

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Menzel

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Recent literature suggests that dialogic forms of risk communication are more effective to build stakeholders' hazard-related social capacities. In spite of the high theoretical expectations, there is a lack of univocal empirical evidence on the relevance of these effects. This is mainly due to the methodological limitations of the existing evaluation approaches. In our paper we aim at eliciting the contribution of participatory river revitalisation projects on stakeholders' social capacity building by triangulating the findings of three evaluation studies that were based on different approaches: a field-experimental, a qualitative long-term ex-post and a cross-sectional household survey approach. The results revealed that social learning and avoiding the loss of trust were more relevant benefits of participatory flood management than acceptance building. The results suggest that stakeholder involvements should be more explicitly designed as tools for long-term social learning

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How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

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“…Other authors argue that risk communication reaches the target groups best if it addresses relevant aspects of their mental models of risk situations, their personal problem frames (Kolkman et al 2007;Rowan 1994) and salient cultural frames (Uskul and Oysermann 2010). Similarly, Manojlovic and Pasche (2008) show that appealing to personal emotions and experiences is key to raising people's interest in risk-related information.…”

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Linking social capacities and risk communication in Europe: a gap between theory and practice?

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Although both improved risk communication and the building of social capacities have been advocated as vital ways to increase societies' resilience towards natural hazards across the world, the literature has rarely examined the ways in which these two concepts may integrate in theory and practice. This paper is an attempt to address this gap in a European context. It begins with a conceptual discussion that unites the literature on risk communication with the literature on social capacity building. We then use the insights from this discussion as a basis to conduct a review of 60 risk communication practices from across Europe. This review indicates a gap between theory and practice because, whilst the literature highlights the importance of integrated and coordinated communication campaigns featuring both a one-way transfer and a two-way dialogue between the public, stakeholders and decision-makers, the majority of the communication practices reviewed here appear to be relatively disparate initiatives that rely on one-way forms of communication. On the basis of these findings, we conclude by making some recommendations for the way in which such practices could be improved in order to be more supportive of social capacities across Europe. Keywords Risk communication Á Capacity building Á Participation Á Warning Á PreventionElectronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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“…The first survey should be more explicitly announced as an input for the first workshop, which might also increase the participants' willingness to respond to it. Alternatively, the first survey could be conducted before the first information on the flood prevention alternatives is communicated so that the participants' problem perception could be better addressed in the participatory assessment process (Kolkman et al, 2007). The second survey should also be better integrated in the process and may be conducted as a final part of the synthesis workshop so that facilitators could ensure that all participants complete the questionnaire.…”

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“…Kolkman et al (2007) suggested that people's (laypeople as well as experts) mental models of risks are shaped on the one hand by information available to them and on the other hand by their position, that is the result of their personal, social or institutional background. According to this approach, risk perception is considerably shaped by interests of stakeholder groups.…”

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The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

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Abstract.Over the last few decades, Europe has suffered from a number of severe flood events and, as a result, there has been a growing interest in probing alternative approaches to managing flood risk via prevention measures. A literature review reveals that, although in the last decades risk evaluation has been recognized as key element of risk management, and risk assessment methodologies (including risk analysis and evaluation) have been improved by including social, economic, cultural, historical and political conditions, the theoretical schemes are not yet applied in practice. One main reason for this shortcoming is that risk perception literature is mainly of universal and theoretical nature and cannot provide the necessary details to implement a comprehensive risk evaluation. This paper therefore aims to explore a procedure that allows the inclusion of stakeholders' perceptions of prevention measures in risk assessment. It proposes to adopt methods of risk communication (both one-way and two-way communication) in risk assessment with the final aim of making flood risk management more effective. The proposed procedure not only focuses on the effect of discursive risk communication on risk perception, and on achieving a shared assessment of the prevention alternatives, but also considers the effects of the communication process on perceived uncertainties, accepted risk levels, and trust in the managing institutions.The effectiveness of this combined procedure has been studied and illustrated using the example of the participatory flood prevention assessment process on the Sihl River in Zurich, Switzerland. The main findings of the case study suggest that the proposed procedure performed well, but that it needs some adaptations for it to be applicable in different contexts and to allow a (semi-) quantitative estimation of risk perception to be used as an indicator of adaptive capacity.

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Controversies in water management: Frames and mental models

Cited by 47 publications

References 34 publications

How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

Linking social capacities and risk communication in Europe: a gap between theory and practice?

The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

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