The role of non-governmental actors in the spatial development of flood risks in Flanders (Belgium): towards a co-evolutionary approach in flood risk management
| dc.contributor.author | Tempels, Barbara | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-18T11:03:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-18T11:03:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | 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 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Recent challenges in flood risk management, call for the diversification of measures and the responsibilization of spatial planners and civil society in dealing with flood risks. Until recently it was the water managers’ responsibility to provide protection, but it is becoming clear that increasing risks due to climate change and urbanization make sole governmental responsibility and protection financially and technically untenable. The broadening of flood risk management is aimed at emergency planning on the one hand and spatial planning on the other. This paper focuses on the spatial development of flood risks, both in terms of properties at risk, as in terms of urbanization causing increased run-off and therefore increasing flood frequencies and intensities. The actors involved in this field include residents, architects, contractors, insurers, real estate agents, etc. Therefore, it is expected that including these stakeholders can make managing flood risks more effective and increase overall resilience to flooding. However, water managers in Flanders (Belgium), the case study in this paper, are often not familiar with relational approaches that include non-governmental actors in their processes, especially in the implementation of measures. Also flood risk management research has mainly focused on the isolated study of (mostly technical) systems. Therefore, knowledge on the role of non-governmental actors in the development of flood risks and on how they can be involved in policy-making is lacking. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 1202-1204 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2012 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | 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 | en |
| dc.title | The role of non-governmental actors in the spatial development of flood risks in Flanders (Belgium): towards a co-evolutionary approach in flood risk management | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |