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Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions

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  • Arwin van Buuren
  • Judy Lawrence
  • Karen Potter
  • Jeroen F. Warner

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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. 在英国、新西兰和荷兰引入适应性洪水风险管理:行政传统的影响 气候变化适应为洪水风险管理政策领域的决策者创造了重要挑战。考虑到气候变化的复杂特征, 适应性措施(可随情况的发展进行相应调整)被视为处理一系列关于洪水灾害不确定性、灾害影响以及相关风险的必要手段。适应性措施的实施是否是成功的?这高度取决于一个国家的行政传统如何帮助或阻碍应用更具适应性的方法。笔者在本文中识别了荷兰、英国和新西兰地区的行政传统如何影响适应性洪水风险管理措施的引入。通过应用行政传统概念, 笔者致力阐述适应性策略在三个不同国家的洪水管理制度下是如何形成和实施的, 以及这一过程出现的相似点和不同点, 并解释了与行政传统相关的哪些方面促进或阻碍了这些过程的创新。 Introduciendo la gestión adaptativa de riesgos de inundación en Inglaterra, Nueva Zelanda y Países Bajos: El impacto de las tradiciones administrativas La adaptación al cambio climático crea cambios significativos para los que toman decisiones en el sector de política de gestión de riesgos. Dadas las características complejas del cambio climático, los acercamientos adaptativos (que pueden ser ajustados según la evolución de las circunstancias) se consideran necesarios para lidiar con el rango de incertidumbre en el tema de los peligros de inundación y sus impactos y riesgos asociados. La pregunta de si el implementar acercamientos adaptativos es exitoso depende de cómo la tradición administrativa de un país habilita o dificulta el utilizar un acercamiento más adaptativo. En este artículo discernimos cómo la tradición administrativa en países bajos, Inglaterra y Nueva Zelanda tienen un impacto en el uso de aproximaciones adaptativas de gestión de riesgos de inundación. Al utilizar el concepto de las tradiciones administrativas, buscamos explicar las similitudes y/o diferencias en cómo las estrategias adaptativas obtienen su forma y son implementadas en tres diferentes regímenes de manejo de inundaciones estatales y asimismo, qué aspectos relacionados a las tradiciones administrativas son habilitadores o barreras para la innovación en estos procesos.

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  • Arwin van Buuren & Judy Lawrence & Karen Potter & Jeroen F. Warner, 2018. "Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 35(6), pages 907-929, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:35:y:2018:i:6:p:907-929
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12300
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