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Expert-influence in adapting flood governance: An institutional analysis of the spatial turns in the United States and the Netherlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

EMMY BERGSMA
EMMY BERGSMA*
Affiliation:
KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands
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*Email: emmy.bergsma@kwrwater.nl
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Abstract

In response to climate change, many national governments are shifting their focus from ‘safety’ to ‘spatial-planning’ measures in flood governance. Rather than providing full protection against floods, spatial-planning measures aim to reduce the impacts of floods by encouraging damage mitigation in local-level spatial-planning and building choices. This turn to spatial-planning measures has important implications for how costs and responsibilities are divided in flood governance. This paper examines the role of experts in shaping the distributive aspects of this shift. Using a theoretical framework on institutional change, the role of experts is analyzed in two case studies. The first focuses on the United States, where a turn to spatial-planning measures was made in the 1960s. The second case study looks at this turn Dutch flood governance, which has always been characterized by a strong safety paradigm. The paper draws conclusions about the effects of expert-influence on distributive decision-making underlying institutional changes in both cases.

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 14 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue on Adapting Institutions to Climate Change , June 2018 , pp. 449 - 471
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Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2017 

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