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

2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Engineering Space: Spatial Flood Risk Management in the Netherlands

Author : Emmy Bergsma

Published in: From Flood Safety to Spatial Management

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The previous chapter concentrated on the formation of the safety approach in Dutch flood governance. This chapter starts out with a brief overview of the institutionalization of this approach over time, to then analyze the gradual shift to spatial measures which has set in since the 1990s. The analysis focuses on three measures with an important spatial component: Room for the River, flood insurance, and the Second Delta Program, which were except for flood insurance implemented in the Netherlands. The chapter reconstructs the policymaking processes underlying these measures. In particular, it looks at the role of experts in these processes and analyses the implications of expert-involvement on the recognition of distributive implications of spatial measures in the decision-making process. The chapter concludes that Dutch policymaking on floods continues to rely on institutionalized engineering expertise, which is ill-equipped to highlight local-level distributive implications brought forward by spatial policies in flood governance.

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Footnotes
1
Discussion meeting at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, October 12, 2015, The Hague.
 
2
Discussion meeting at Rijkswaterstaat, February 15, 2016, Lelystad..
 
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Metadata
Title
Engineering Space: Spatial Flood Risk Management in the Netherlands
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_3