Discursive Shifts in Dutch River Management: ‘Deep’ Institutional Change or Adaptation Strategy?

Wiering, Mark; Arts, B.J.M.

doi:10.1007/s10750-005-5923-2

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“…As such, adaptation strategies are those that promote anticipatory actions to reduce the expected damage from imminent flooding. This will include practices such as the 'living with water' or 'accommodating water' approach (Fleming 2002;Wiering and Arts 2006), which rather than fighting flood water and keeping it away or building big infrastructure to stop the water, suggests embracing as opposed to battling the water. Carmin et al (2015) categorised adaptation options that may need to be considered into structural, institutional and societal measures (institutional and societal measures are non-structural).…”

Section: Adaptation Strategies Towards Flood Hazardmentioning

confidence: 99%

A media framing analysis of urban flooding in Nigeria: current narratives and implications for policy

Adekola

Lamond

2017

Reg Environ Change

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A critical element of current flood management is the importance of engaging key policy actors when policy decisions are to be made. However, there is still only limited understanding of how narratives of flood management actors may influence flood management policies, even though there is a suggestion that actors can strategically use their narratives to influence policy directions. In a developing country like Nigeria, there are still questions around lessons that can be learnt from understanding the narratives of policy actors, to unravel the complex nature of strategies and policy directions in managing urban floods. To help fill these gaps, this paper uses quantitative content analysis to explore the frame of five policy actor groups (government, local communities, business, multilateral organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs)) as expressed in local and national newspapers between 2012 and 2016 to understand their narratives of causes and strategies to solve the problem of urban flooding in Nigeria. The narratives of government, local communities and businesses align with the premise that flooding can and should be prevented whilst that of multilateral and business actors champion adaptation strategies on the basis that flooding is inevitable and hence more energy should be directed at 'living with water'-emergency response, damage reduction and the aftermath. The study also identified areas of potential consensus and conflict between direct actors such as government and local communities on the one hand and funders on the other. Better discussion among actors aiding understanding of contemporary thinking and local realities will aid policy-making and policy implementation in the Nigerian context. An important step will be in the collaborative design of an urgently needed 'Nigerian policy on flooding' which currently does not exist.

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Section: Adaptation Strategies Towards Flood Hazardmentioning

confidence: 99%

A media framing analysis of urban flooding in Nigeria: current narratives and implications for policy

Adekola

Lamond

2017

Reg Environ Change

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“…We apply the policy arrangement approach (PAA) to map out the key structures of the institutional arrangement preshock event, as well as the changes corresponding to the shock event. The PAA analyzes an institutional subsystem in terms of four dimensions: its formal and informal rules, the involved actor coalitions, their resource and power positions, and dominant policy discourses (Liefferink 2006, Wiering andArts 2006). Thus, it facilitates the identification of policy change: Is policy change mainly of a rhetorical/symbolic nature, or does it affect one or more of the organizational dimensions, i.e., the actor constellation and the rules or resources-dimension (Liefferink 2006, Wiering andArts 2006)?…”

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Shock events and flood risk management: a media analysis of the institutional long-term effects of flood events in the Netherlands and Poland

Kaufmann¹,

Lewandowski²,

Choryński³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. Flood events that have proven to create shock waves in society, which we will call shock events, can open windows of opportunity that allow different actor groups to introduce new ideas. Shock events, however, can also strengthen the status quo. We will take flood events as our object of study. Whereas others focus mainly on the immediate impact and disaster management, we will focus on the long-term impact on and resilience of flood risk governance arrangements. Over the last 25 years, both the Netherlands and Poland have suffered several flood-related events. These triggered strategic and institutional changes, but to different degrees. In a comparative analysis these endogenous processes, i.e., the importance of framing of the flood event, its exploitation by different actor groups, and the extent to which arrangements are actually changing, are examined. In line with previous research, our analysis revealed that shock events test the capacity to resist and bounce back and provide opportunities for adapting and learning. They "open up" institutional arrangements and make them more susceptible to change, increasing the opportunity for adaptation. In this way they can facilitate a shift toward different degrees of resilience, i.e., by adjusting the current strategic approach or by moving toward another strategic approach. The direction of change is influenced by the actors and the frames they introduce, and their ability to increase the resonance of the frame. The persistence of change seems to be influenced by the evolution of the initial management approach, the availability of resources, or the willingness to allocate resources.

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“…To be able to compare the changes that have occurred within the flood defense strategy of the six countries, we organized our data collection around the four dimensions of the policy arrangement approach (PAA; Van Tatenhove et al 2000, Wiering and Arts 2006, Wiering and Crabbé 2006. This allows us to evaluate if change has occurred or not in four interwoven or interrelated dimensions of a policy arrangement: actors and coalitions, rules, resources, and discourses.…”

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Is flood defense changing in nature? Shifts in the flood defense strategy in six European countries

Gralepois¹,

Larrue²,

Wiering³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. In many countries, flood defense has historically formed the core of flood risk management but this strategy is now evolving with the changing approach to risk management. This paper focuses on the neglected analysis of institutional changes within the flood defense strategies formulated and implemented in six European countries (Belgium, England, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden). The evolutions within the defense strategy over the last 30 years have been analyzed with the help of three mainstream institutional theories: a policy dynamics-oriented framework, a structure-oriented institutional theory on path dependency, and a policy actors-oriented analysis called the advocacy coalitions framework. We characterize the stability and evolution of the trends that affect the defense strategy in the six countries through four dimensions of a policy arrangement approach: actors, rules, resources, and discourses. We ask whether the strategy itself is changing radically, i.e., toward a discontinuous situation, and whether the processes of change are more incremental or radical. Our findings indicate that in the European countries studied, the position of defense strategy is continuous, as the classical role of flood defense remains dominant. With changing approaches to risk, integrated risk management, climate change, urban growth, participation in governance, and socioeconomic challenges, the flood defense strategy is increasingly under pressure to change. However, these changes can be defined as part of an adaptation of the defense strategy rather than as a real change in the nature of flood risk management.

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Discursive Shifts in Dutch River Management: ‘Deep’ Institutional Change or Adaptation Strategy?

Cited by 105 publications

References 5 publications

A media framing analysis of urban flooding in Nigeria: current narratives and implications for policy

A media framing analysis of urban flooding in Nigeria: current narratives and implications for policy

Shock events and flood risk management: a media analysis of the institutional long-term effects of flood events in the Netherlands and Poland

Is flood defense changing in nature? Shifts in the flood defense strategy in six European countries

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