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A Framework for Analyzing Distributive Decision-Making in Flood Governance Read chapter Read first chapter

2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. A Comparative Analysis of Expert-Influence in Dutch and US Flood Governance

Author : Emmy Bergsma

Published in: From Flood Safety to Spatial Management

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This book aimed at improving our understanding of the distributive implications of spatial flood governance measures and of the processes through which distributive decisions in flood governance are made. In these processes, the focus was on the role of experts; in policymaking on flood risk, experts not only specify the costs and benefits involved with different policy alternatives but in doing so also influence policy choices, including their distributive underpinnings. In this book, the role of experts in the shift to spatial measures was analyzed in two cases of Dutch and US flood governance. Based on a comparative analysis of both cases, this chapter concludes that expert-influence in these cases can best be understood as contextually embedded in its larger socio-political context, meaning that close relationships between experts and political actors developed in Dutch and US flood governance through which “strong” policy frames were produced. It calls for the incorporation of spatial-behavioral expertise in the shift to a spatial approach in flood governance to explicate the distributive implications of spatial measures. At the same time, national-level reflection should be ensured to reevaluate the political trade-offs underlying a spatial approach to floods in changing external conditions such as climate change.

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Metadata
Title
A Comparative Analysis of Expert-Influence in Dutch and US Flood Governance
Author
Emmy Bergsma
Copyright Year
2019
Book
From Flood Safety to Spatial Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96715-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96716-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96716-5_6