Alblasserwaard (NL) - Background

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Physical environment and background information

Demographics of society

Resilience targets: 300.000 inhabitants 2 - 10 communities. Frames Pilotbook (2017)

Flood risk governance arrangement

Apply flood risk governance arrangements according to the following dimensions: Diversification and dominance of strategies. Dominance of some strategies and arrangements in this countrie? 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. ------------- Alblasserwaard Low diversification, defence dominant. Water sector is dominant. De public (state) is dominant. Central en regional level. 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.