Alblasserwaard (NL) - Background

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Physical environment and background information

Demographics of society

Flood risk governance arrangement

Low diversification, defence dominant. Water sector is dominant. De public (state) is dominant. Central en regional level. We apply the framework to compare flood risk governance arrangements in the corresponding countries of the FRAMES pilots according to the following dimensions: • Diversification and dominance of strategies refers to why is there dominance of some strategies and arrangements in some countries and not in others? What factors explain further diversification of flood risk governance arrangements? • Multi-sector governance relates to factors that explain why flood risk governance either has more differentiated structures, such as sector-based water management, or relies on integrated planning – or even integrated risk management – and what are the possible changes therein? • Multi-actor governance concerns factors that explain why flood risk governance is a responsibility of the state, the market and/or civil society, their interrelationships, and possible changes therein. • Multi-level governance relates to factors that explain why flood risk governance is organised locally, regionally, or nationally, what possible shifts in (de)centralisation we see, and how we can explain them. Buijs, J-M. (2018)

Challenges for flood resilience

Current situation

• Adaptive planning for flood resilient areas: dealing with complexity in decision-making about multilayered flood risk management, Buijs, J-M., Boelens, L., Bormann, H., Restemeyer, B., Terpstra, T., HZ University of Applied Sciences, 1 januari 2018.
• Frames pilots, Interreg, Interreg, 1 april 2017.