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The Problem of Fit in Flood Risk Governance: Regulative, Normative, and Cultural-Cognitive Deliberations
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Abstract Flood risk is a growing global concern that is not only affecting developing countries, but also the sustainable development of the most affluent liberal democracies. This has attracted attention to the systems governing flood risk across administrative levels, which vary between countries, but are ... mehr
Flood risk is a growing global concern that is not only affecting developing countries, but also the sustainable development of the most affluent liberal democracies. This has attracted attention to the systems governing flood risk across administrative levels, which vary between countries, but are relatively similar in the Nordic region, with both responsibilities and resources largely decentralized to the municipal level. However, floods tend not to be bounded by conventional borders but demand attention to the catchment area as a whole. Influential voices have long argued the importance of fit between the biophysical basis of an issue and the institutional arrangements of actors engaging in its governance. The article investigates such institutional fit in flood risk governance, based on a case study of flood risk mitigation in the Höje Å catchment area in Southern Sweden. Analyzing a unique dataset comprising 217 interviews with all individual formal actors actively engaged in flood risk mitigation in the catchment area illuminates a 'problem of fit' between the hydrological system behind flood risk and the institutional arrangements of its governance. This 'problem of fit' is not only visible along the borders of the municipalities composing the catchment area, but also of the spatial planning areas within them. The article deliberates on regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive elements that align to lock flood risk governance into a regime of practices that, if not addressed, continues to undermine society's ability to anticipate and adapt to the expected escalation of flood risk in a changing climate.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Schweden; Naturkatastrophe; Katastrophenschutz; Governance; Regionalpolitik; Klimawandel; Risikomanagement; Regionalplanung
Klassifikation
Ökologie und Umwelt
Freie Schlagwörter
Sweden; flood risk; governance; governmentalization; institutional fit; institutionalism; mitigation; problem of fit
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 281-293
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 8 (2020) 4
Heftthema
The Politics of Disaster Governance
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)