Flood risk management in the Canadian prairie provinces: Defaulting towards flood resistance and recovery versus resilience

Morrison, Alasdair; Noble, Bram; Westbrook, Cherie J.

doi:10.1080/07011784.2018.1428501

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“…Atlantic coasts are also overwhelmingly rural, meaning ongoing “hard” protection measures are often not economical (Danielson 2019 ; Henstra et al 2019 ). Much Canadian adaptation research has focused on Central or Western contexts (Morrison et al 2018 ), often urban ones (Haney 2019 ; Doberstein et al 2020 ). The urban Atlantic coast in the United States is also well studied thanks to recent storms (e.g., Siders and Keenan 2020 ).…”

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Climax thinking on the coast: a focus group priming experiment with coastal property owners about climate adaptation

Sherren

Sutton

Chappell

2022

Environmental Management

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Coastal communities face increasingly difficult decisions about responses to climate change. Armoring and defending the coast are being revealed as ineffective in terms of outcomes and cost, particularly in rural areas. Nature-based options include approaches that make space for coastal dynamism (e.g., through managed retreat) or leverage ecosystem services such as erosion control (e.g., by restoring coastal wetlands). Resistance can be strong to these alternatives to hard infrastructure. Nova Scotia, off Canada’s Atlantic coast, is a vulnerable coastal jurisdiction facing such decisions. The emerging climax thinking framework was used to design 14 experimental online focus groups. These focus groups explored how three priming treatments influenced discussions about adaptation options and urgency and quantitative pre/post-tests, compared with information-only control treatments. A future-focused priming strategy seemed most effective since it fostered discussions about duties to future generations. The altruism-focused priming strategy involved reflections of wartime mobilization and more recent collective action. It also worked but was more difficult to implement and potentially higher risk. Past-focused priming was counterproductive. Further research should test the future-focused and altruism-focused strategies among larger groups and in different jurisdictions, reducing some of the biases in our sample.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climax thinking on the coast: a focus group priming experiment with coastal property owners about climate adaptation

Sherren

Sutton

Chappell

2022

Environmental Management

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“…In addition, these institutions provide skills development training for livelihood diversification, disaster awareness programs, counseling services on changing cropping patterns postflood, weather information and new technologies (Abid et al, 2017;Arai, 2012). For research on Flood Risk Management to take effect, Morrison et al (2018) recommend that a policy agenda is needed rather than what is currently the case to better address research and policy needs. This means that researchers must not only continue to improve the tools of the physical sciences for flood forecasting and modeling but also advance social science tools that assist collaborative flood risk management policy development processes.…”

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The Role of School Supervisors in Encouraging Teachers to Manage Postflood Recovery Actions

Basuki

Perdinanto²

2023

JESR

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This study aims to reveal the supervisors’ role in motivating and encouraging teacher creativity and learning innovation in elementary and junior high schools in South Kalimantan after the flood. Methodology This study adopted a sequential mixed method approach that combines quantitative and qualitative studies conducted sequentially and at different times. In the first stage, data were collected by distributing questionnaires to 53 school supervisors. The variables in this quantitative study are the role of supervisors as an independent variable (X) and motivation (Y1), creativity (Y2) and learning innovation (Y3) as the dependent variables. Second, in-depth interviews were conducted to collect qualitative data from the 10 respondents. Correlations between research variables were conducted on the quantitative data, while qualitative data were analyzed. Finding The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between Supervisor Role and Teacher Motivation on Teacher Creativity and Learning Innovation. Implication This study highlights the important role of supervisors in advising school management and coordinating the engagement of other stakeholders for flood mitigation actions as well as encouraging teachers to continue carrying out teaching and learning activities. Received: 27 August 2022 / Accepted: 26 December 2022 / Published: 5 January 2023

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“…Key constructs in global change scholarship such as vulnerability and adaptive capacity (Miller et al, 2010;Smit & Wandel, 2006) are also addressed. Attention has been focused on specific disturbances including flooding (e.g., Baird et al, 2016;Liao, 2012;Morrison, Noble, & Westbrook, 2018) and drought (e.g., Falkenmark & Rockström, 2008;Rockström, 2003). Studies of water resilience in urban settings often connect with the challenges of flooding (e.g., Head, 2014;Jiang, Zevenbergan, & Fu, 2017), and some specifically address how the concept of resilience relates to water services and infrastructure (e.g., Johannessen & Wamsler, 2017;Kennedy, Baker, Dhakal, & Ramaswami, 2012).…”

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The Emergence of Water Resilience: An Introduction

Plummer

Baird

2020

Water Resilience

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Water quality and availability is critical for sustaining life on earth. However, lack of access to potable water and safe sanitation services for billions of people, deteriorating infrastructure, degradation of ecosystems, and impacts of climate change signal a global water crisis. This crisis is unfolding in the era of the Anthropocene, where human actions are a major driving force of change at a global scale. Instability and surprise are expected in this era, where the interactions and impacts of our decisions can have far-reaching and uncertain impacts. How do we navigate water management and governance in the face of these challenges? A new water paradigm -water resilience -has emerged that acknowledges and considers the complex, dynamic and uncertain nature of social-ecological systems. It emphasizes the need for systems to both persist and provide a set of functions and to adapt to changing conditions. Water resilience has been advanced in scholarship over the past 15 years and is gaining traction in practice and policy realms worldwide. Acknowledgement of the complex nature of water systems coincides with the recognition that the past, command-and-control approaches to management and governance, must give way to inclusive, adaptive and polycentric approaches. Considerable inroads are being made into how we advance management and governance approaches in this new water paradigm. The contributors to this volume represent voices that are making important contributions to the way forward.

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Flood risk management in the Canadian prairie provinces: Defaulting towards flood resistance and recovery versus resilience

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Climax thinking on the coast: a focus group priming experiment with coastal property owners about climate adaptation

Climax thinking on the coast: a focus group priming experiment with coastal property owners about climate adaptation

The Role of School Supervisors in Encouraging Teachers to Manage Postflood Recovery Actions

The Emergence of Water Resilience: An Introduction

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