Agricultural land use and flood risk management: Engaging with stakeholders in North Yorkshire

Posthumus, Héléna; Hewett, Caspar; Morris, Joe; Quinn, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2008.02.001

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“…This makes the numerical modelling approach more feasible along with scenario delivery in the catchment. This follows previous studies (Posthumus et al, 2008;Lane et al, in press) where knowledge has been co-produced. The benefits for both the science researched and the management of the landscape have been shown to exist.…”

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Rural land management impacts on catchment scale flood risk

Pattison¹

2010

Role of Hydrology in Managing Consequences of a Changing Global Environment

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source• a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses• the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Most approaches to this problem aim to upscale from individual grid cells to whole catchments, something that restricts the complexity of possible process representation, produces models that may not be parsimonious with the data needed to calibrate them and, faced with data uncertainties, provides computational limitations on the extent to which model uncertainty can be fully explored. Rather than upscaling to problems of concern, this thesis seeks to downscale from locations of known flood risk, as a means of identifying where land use management changes might be beneficial and then uses numerical modelling to identify the kinds of management changes required in those downscaled locations. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to test an approach to understanding the impacts of rural land management upon flood risk based upon catchment-to-source downscaling.This thesis uses the case study of the River Eden catchment (2400 km 2 ) as a test (1) it was shown to have a significant impact on downstream flood risk; and (2) it had range of data and information needed for modelling land use changes.The second part of this thesis explored the land management scenarios that could be used to reduce flood risk at the catchment scale. The scenarios to be tested were determined through a stakeholder participation approach, whereby workshops were held to brainstorm and prioritise land management options, and then to identify specific locations within the Eamont sub-catchment where they could tested. There were two main types of land management scenarios chosen: (1) landscape-scale changes, including afforestation and compaction; and (2) corresponding to a 5.8% decrease in peak discharge. A key conclusion is that land management practices have been shown to have an effect on catchment scale flooding, even for extreme flood events. However, the effect of land management scenarios are both spatially and temporally dependent i.e. the same land management practice has different effects depending on where it is implemented, and when implemented in the same location has different effects on different flood events.

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“…A second study investigating the potential for land use to reduce flood risk is Posthumus et al (2008). This used a different type of stakeholders, as these group members belonged and represented an interested organisation (i.e.…”

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Rural land management impacts on catchment scale flood risk

Pattison¹

2010

Role of Hydrology in Managing Consequences of a Changing Global Environment

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“…-social interaction encourages the achievement of stakeholder consensus in a risk management decision -higher level of stakeholder engagement, by giving participants the opportunity to communicate their views and judgments to the other participants as well as learn from them -participants can approach the problem in a more integrated way by encouraging exchange of positions and considering issues in relation to the common good rather than individual interest -opportunity to follow up with group dynamics in which evolving discusses play a key role -participants can be challenged by others more profoundly than in semi-structured interviews -local stakeholders are empowered in land and risk decisions -stakeholders are actively involved, working hand-in-hand with land use planners and policy makers -realistic expectations are created via a networking of building trust and enhancing commitment -facilitates the satisfaction of their needs and acceptance of decision-based planning -researchers and planners access to local expertise and knowledge -tendency to avoid conflicts -it is difficult to engage stakeholders in active participation -the number of participants is limited processes (Howgate and Kenyon, 2009;Posthumus et al, 2008), while both mainly used qualitative methods. In the following paragraph the importance, and the potential role of risk communication in risk management will be briefly described, while in Sect.…”

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The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Buchecker

Salvini

Baldassarre

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.Over the last few decades, Europe has suffered from a number of severe flood events and, as a result, there has been a growing interest in probing alternative approaches to managing flood risk via prevention measures. A literature review reveals that, although in the last decades risk evaluation has been recognized as key element of risk management, and risk assessment methodologies (including risk analysis and evaluation) have been improved by including social, economic, cultural, historical and political conditions, the theoretical schemes are not yet applied in practice. One main reason for this shortcoming is that risk perception literature is mainly of universal and theoretical nature and cannot provide the necessary details to implement a comprehensive risk evaluation. This paper therefore aims to explore a procedure that allows the inclusion of stakeholders' perceptions of prevention measures in risk assessment. It proposes to adopt methods of risk communication (both one-way and two-way communication) in risk assessment with the final aim of making flood risk management more effective. The proposed procedure not only focuses on the effect of discursive risk communication on risk perception, and on achieving a shared assessment of the prevention alternatives, but also considers the effects of the communication process on perceived uncertainties, accepted risk levels, and trust in the managing institutions.The effectiveness of this combined procedure has been studied and illustrated using the example of the participatory flood prevention assessment process on the Sihl River in Zurich, Switzerland. The main findings of the case study suggest that the proposed procedure performed well, but that it needs some adaptations for it to be applicable in different contexts and to allow a (semi-) quantitative estimation of risk perception to be used as an indicator of adaptive capacity.

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“…These rivers account for 60 to 80% of the entire river network (Benda et al, 2005), providing potable drinking water (Sturdee et al, 2007), buffering capacity for flood risk (Posthumus et al, 2008), dilution of nutrient rich waters downstream (Bowes et al, 2003) and ecological habitats fundamental to the health of the aquatic ecosystems (Meyer et al, 2007). Maintaining the quality of headwater resources is thus essential for the sustainability of the water environment (Soulsby et al, 2002).…”

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Dominant mechanisms for the delivery of fine sediment and phosphorus to fluvial networks draining grassland dominated headwater catchments

Perks

Owen

Benskin

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

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. (2015) 'Dominant mechanisms for the delivery of ne sediment and phosphorus to uvial networks draining grassland dominated headwater catchments.', Science of the total environment., 523 . pp. 178-190. Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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Agricultural land use and flood risk management: Engaging with stakeholders in North Yorkshire

Cited by 108 publications

References 21 publications

Rural land management impacts on catchment scale flood risk

Rural land management impacts on catchment scale flood risk

The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Dominant mechanisms for the delivery of fine sediment and phosphorus to fluvial networks draining grassland dominated headwater catchments

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