Designing the spatially integrated policy infrastructure for planning and flood risk management

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2016
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Integration of spatial planning and flood risk management at policy levels may help address the issues related to flooding (Howe and White, 2004, Kidd, 2007, White and Richards, 2007, Ward, 2013). Such integration requires a variety of facilitators from the political, financial, organizational, management, and cultural sectors (Stead and Meijers, 2009). Information, such as maps of flood risk and development potential, is among those facilitators, and if lacking or inappropriate, it could impede the progress of integration (Neuvel and Van Den Brink, 2009). Geographic Information (GI) and Geographic Technologies (GT) can play the role of ‘integration medium’ (Schuurman, 2003) because they can potentially improve a mutual understanding of issues, collaboration and communication between different policy fields and institutions (Pelzer et al., 2014). Drawing on the established significance of GI and GT across many planning tasks (Pettit and Pullar, 2009, Chang et al., 2008, Van Haaren and Fthenakis, 2011, Oana et al., 2011, McCall and Dunn, 2012, Vukicevic and Nedovic-Budic, 2012) and flood management activities (Pradhan et al., 2009, Werner, 2001, Zhang et al., 2009, Nedovic-Budic et al., 2006, Bahremand et al., 2007), the research presented in this paper aims at developing an infrastructure for policy integration facilitated by such information and technology.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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