Arguments for a co-production approach to community flood protection

Fitton, Sarah; Moncaster, Alice

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“…Proposals that lack sufficient public participation may experience technical failures due to a lack of consideration of experiential local knowledge, or they may fail to be implemented due to sustained local opposition (Fitton and Moncaster, 2018). Some researchers have also argued that poor public consultation on new flood risk management plans can erode existing community resilience (Jennings, 2009).…”

Section: Transformative Adaptation and Public Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However participation can range from passive receipt of information to self-driven activism (Few et al, 2007), or a series of steps from "manipulation" through "consultation" to "citizen control" (Arnstein, 1969, p.217). In consultative approaches communities may be consulted but have limited ability to influence the outcome while participatory processes typically involve a greater degree of influence for non-expert actors (Fitton and Moncaster, 2018). In practice some decision-making processes may involve elements of both consultation and participation, either at different stages of the process or for different stakeholders.…”

Section: Transformative Adaptation and Public Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These would recognise that all hazards management and adaptation is a political process in the broadest sense (Eriksen et al, 2015) opening questions such as how to define the problem and who should be responsible for managing it, for debate at the outset of the process. Such a process would challenge existing roles and power relationships within the decision-making process, as well as raising challenging questions about how to balance and integrate different forms of knowledge (Eriksen et al, 2015;Fitton and Moncaster, 2018;Landstrom et. al., 2011;Lane et.…”

Section: Implementing An Alternative Approach To Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public participation is viewed as an objective in almost every area of environmental policy (Few et al, 2007). However consultative or participatory decision-making is often viewed as an add-on to expert led decision-making, rather than as an integral part of an alternative approach (Fitton and Moncaster, 2018). Within the member states of the European Union the enactment of the Floods Directive in 2007 is sometimes viewed as a seminal moment when integrated flood risk management with active public participation became the norm.…”

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Barriers to transformation towards participatory adaptation decision-making: Lessons from the Cork flood defences dispute

Jeffers

2020

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This paper analyses the causes and consequences of public participation failures in flood hazards management and the important lessons they offer for climate change adaptation. Despite the potential for participatory adaptation decision-making, scholarship on adaptation has remained largely separate from the literature on participatory environmental governance. This paper brings these literatures into conversation by applying the concept of transformation to both adaptation outcomes and adaptation decision-making. Through an examination of a disputed flood relief scheme in Cork, Ireland this paper develops three main arguments. (1) It demonstrates the need for analytical approaches which recognise that what constitutes transformative adaptation will vary depending on the definitions of transformation that are used, the contexts in which these definitions are applied, and the perspectives of local stakeholders. (2) It argues that by producing an intractable conflict and damaging the reputation of the organisations responsible for hazards management, public participation failures create formidable new barriers to transformative adaptation outcomes. (3) It concludes that incremental changes to the decision-making process will prove insufficient to overcome these barriers. In order to facilitate more effective public participation in hazards management and climate change adaptation, much wider change in hazards management policy and resourcing will be required.

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“…Poor public consultation in flood risk management can act to reduce existing community resilience (Jennings, 2009) while hazards management plans that lack sufficient public participation are more likely to fail to meet their objectives (Stevens et al, 2010). In the case of flood risk management such failures can occur when a lack of public participation means that Constituencies for flood management | 357 local experiential knowledge is excluded from the decision-making process (Fitton & Moncaster, 2018). A move toward wider participation in flood risk management was also enshrined in the EU Floods Directive which calls for anyone who has an interest in or is directly impacted by flood risk management to be given an opportunity to participate in the decision-making process (Moon et al, 2017).…”

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Building constituencies for flood risk management: Critical insights from a flood defences dispute in Ireland

Jeffers

2022

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Stakeholder consultation and participation are often viewed as an essential component of hazards governance and disaster risk reduction. However, an extensive literature in the fields of hazards management, disaster risk reduction, planning, and environmental governance has highlighted numerous challenges that have constrained attempts to increase participation in decision-making. Some scholars have called for transformative alternative approaches based on engaging broader constituencies of interest or on refocusing decision-making from knowledge transfer to relationship building. This paper contrasts consultative and constituency building models of hazards governance through an examination of a disputed flood relief scheme in Cork, Ireland. Despite extensive stakeholder consultation, the proposed Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme has been the subject of an ongoing dispute between local groups supporting and opposing its implementation. This dispute has prompted a range of interested parties to become involved in debating flood risk management options for Cork City. This has increased both the number of people engaging with issues related to flood risk management and the basis on which they have done so. The ways in which these wider constituencies of interest have emerged highlight important challenges and opportunities for flood

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Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: how perfectionism influences human-centred designing engagement and communal design production in civil engineering

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2023

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Perfectionism is a personality trait associated with a desire for flawlessness, high-standard expectations and criticism of the self and others. As engineering design seeks to address more wicked problems that move beyond technical considerations, it is possible that engineers with perfectionism may struggle to engage flexibly with complexity and more creativity-focused solutions. The present study seeks to understand perfectionism prevalence in an undergraduate cohort of civil engineers and the impact of this trait on complex design decisions and engagements that include social as well as technical considerations. 184 civil engineering students were involved in this study. We found that 74.5% of the engineers classify as perfectionists, with 68.5% of these perfectionists being maladaptive. Further, we examined how perfectionism associated with Communal Designs, a design approach that aims to meet physical community needs as well as more metaphysical, empathy-informed criteria. We found that although perfectionists were more likely to have higher scores of prosocialness and empathy, non-perfectionists were more likely to produce Communal Designs. This suggested an apparent intention-behaviour mismatch. Engineering students may have intended to but then failed to produce Communal Designs; this could also be explained via our finding that perfectionists tend to have higher social desirability scores. The results indicate that complex decision-making in engineering design cannot be separated from the mindsets and personalities of engineers. Strategies to mitigate the negative impact of perfectionism are discussed, including both supported exposure to open-ended, contextualised design, and the use of critical reflection. A regression model predictive of Communal Design production was also developed and discussed using engineering undergraduates’ personality characteristics’ scores as predictors.

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Arguments for a co-production approach to community flood protection

Abstract: M. (2019). Arguments for a Co-production Approach to Community Flood Protection. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability, 172(7) pp. 335-344. For guidance on citations see FAQs.

Cited by 7 publications

References 60 publications

Barriers to transformation towards participatory adaptation decision-making: Lessons from the Cork flood defences dispute

Barriers to transformation towards participatory adaptation decision-making: Lessons from the Cork flood defences dispute

Building constituencies for flood risk management: Critical insights from a flood defences dispute in Ireland

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: how perfectionism influences human-centred designing engagement and communal design production in civil engineering

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