scholarly journals Shaping flood risk governance through science-policy interfaces: Insights from England, France and the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dries Hegger ◽  
Meghan Alexander ◽  
Tom Raadgever ◽  
Sally Priest ◽  
Silvia Bruzzone
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk Governance

scholarly journals Exploring Science–Policy Interactions in a Technical Policy Field: Climate Change and Flood Risk Management in Austria, Southern Germany, and Switzerland

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Nordbeck ◽  
Lukas Löschner ◽  
Melani Pelaez Jara ◽  
Michael Pregernig
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Southern Germany ◽  
Policy Interactions ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
Policy Field

This paper analyses the science–policy interactions in the field of flood risk governance against the background of climate change. By the example of three neighbouring Alpine regions (Switzerland, Southern Germany and Austria), the study strives to shed further light on how flood risk governance regimes embrace the possible impacts of climate change. It builds on the assumption that flood risk management, as a ‘technical’ policy field, is strongly influenced by scientific evidence and that differences in how countries incorporate climate change can be explained by the way science and policy are brought together in the respective national arenas. We structure the empirical analysis along three dimensions: (i) dynamics of knowledge creation; (ii) institutionalization of the science–policy interface; and (iii) pathways of influence of expertise on policy development. We find that there is a mixed, though increasing influence of climate change on flood risk governance in the three selected Alpine regions. Climate adaptation has become an important issue of flood policy in all three study areas, and this shift has been strongly supported by evidence-based arguments.

scholarly journals Explaining stability and change. Comparing flood risk governance in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Liefferink ◽  
M. Wiering ◽  
A. Crabbé ◽  
D. Hegger
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Stability And Change

scholarly journals New science policy minister for the Netherlands

Nature ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 272 (5648) ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
Casper Schuuring
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
New Science

scholarly journals Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Transfer: Flood Risk Governance in Northern Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Petridou ◽  
Pär M. Olausson
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Policy Entrepreneur ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurship ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Actors

AbstractCentral to policies relating to risk governance at the regional and local levels is the interaction between the public and private sectors also referred to as networked governance. At the same time, the role of political actors in general and policy entrepreneurs in particular, in terms of policy change, has gained considerable traction in recent policy scholarship. The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in governance arrangements resulting in the formation of a coordination network in regional flood risk management-the first of its kind in Sweden. Our research is guided by the following questions: first, would the policy change (the establishment of the networks)have taken place if a policy entrepreneur were not part of the policy transfer process? Second, what is the role of policy entrepreneurship in the implementation of the policy after its nationwide adoption? Third, what other factors played a role in the variation of the results in the implemented policy that is, the enforced networks? We find the role of a policy entrepreneur key in the policy transfer from the regional to the national level. In order to investigate the resultant networks, we draw from B. Guy Peters (1998) and his conceptualization of factors which affect the politics of coordination. In addition to the presence of a policy entrepreneur, we compare: (i) pluriformity of network members;(ii) member interdependence; (iii) redundancy of structures, and (iv) degree of formality (in terms of meetings). Our findings suggest that entrepreneurs contribute to the variation in the functionality of the enforced river groups, though other factors play a significant role as well.Most importantly, perhaps, we did not identify entrepreneurs in any of the river groups which were not functional.

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