Governance context for coastal innovations in England: The case of Sandscaping in North Norfolk

Vikolainen, Vera; Flikweert, J.; Bressers, Hans; Lulofs, Kristiaan R.D.

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.05.012

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“…These settings allow the GAT to analyse and compare a high number of cases worldwide. Until now the GAT has been used mainly to analyse single cases such as: Palestine (Al-Khatib, Shoqier, Özerol, & Majaj, 2017;Judeh, Haddad, & Özerol, 2017) Mexico (Casiano & Boer de, 2015;Casiano Flores et al, 2017 and England (Vikolainen, Flikweert, Bressers, & Lulofs, 2017). The only comparative analyses until now, correspond to North-west Europe and to an analysis on collaboration in five cases (de Boer et al, 2016).…”

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The state as a stimulator of wastewater treatment policy: a comparative assessment of three subnational cases in central Mexico

Flores

Özerol

Bressers

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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River basin management and decentralisation reforms are promoted worldwide for solving water pollution problems. In Mexico, governmental efforts have been made to operate wastewater treatment plants countrywide, but federal administrations have not achieved their intended outcomes. Acknowledging the role of governance in the implementation of wastewater treatment policy, this paper analyses three cases in central Mexico and addresses the question: How does the governance context affect the implementation of the wastewater treatment policy in central Mexico? A governance assessment tool is applied to answer the question. The assessment allows an understanding of the governance context and is paired with a comparative case study design. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and documents reviews. The results indicate that the governance context mainly restricts the implementation of the wastewater treatment policy. In all subnational three cases, the river basin management and decentralisation reforms have not reached their objectives. By comparing the three cases, we found that the state level can play a relevant role to decrease fragmentation and to increase the coherence of the wastewater treatment policy. Therefore, strengthening the involvement of the state government and the improvement of mechanisms that limit political machinations can increase the supportiveness of the governance context.

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The state as a stimulator of wastewater treatment policy: a comparative assessment of three subnational cases in central Mexico

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Özerol

Bressers

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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“…Therefore, GAT can be considered as a context-sensitive framework that is part of the academic response to "panacea" or "universal remedy" frameworks [65]. The GAT has already proven strengths in understanding Western European governance contexts of water and climate change resilience projects [66][67][68][69]. It has also been used by researchers to create an online tool for policymakers in urban water transition projects [70].…”

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Assessing the Governance Context Support for Creating a Pluvial Flood Risk Map with Climate Change Scenarios: The Flemish Subnational Case

Flores

Crompvoets

2020

IJGI

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Climate change has increased pluvial flood risks in cities around the world. To mitigate floods, pluvial risk maps with climate change scenarios have been developed to help major urban areas adapt to a changing climate. In some cases, subnational governments have played a key role to develop these maps. However, governance research about the role of subnational governments in geospatial data development in urban water transitions has received little attention. To address this gap, this research applies the Governance Assessment Tool as an evaluative framework to increase our understanding of the governance factors that support the development of pluvial flood risk maps at the subnational level. For this research, we selected the region of Flanders in Belgium. This region is considered among the frontrunners when it comes to the creation of a pluvial flood risk map with climate change scenarios. Data have been collected through in-depth interviews with steering committee actors involved in the development process of the map. The research identified that the current governance context is supportive of the creation of the flood risk map. The government of Flanders plays a key role in this process. The most supportive qualities of the governance context are those related to the degree of fragmentation (extent and coherence), while the less supportive ones are those related to the “quest for control” (flexibility and intensity). Under this governance context, government actors play the primary role. The Flemish government led the maps’ creation process and it was supported by the lower governmental levels. As the provincial government was an important actor to increase local participation, collaboration with private and non-governmental actors in the steering committee was more limited. The financial resources were also limited and the process required a continuous development of trust. Yet, the Flemish Environmental Agency, with the use of technology, was able to increase such trust during the process.

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“…The UK has a high number of critical infrastructure sites located on its North Sea coast (Brown et al, 2014). Within the region of East Anglia there are many critical national infrastructure sites that are threatened, including Bacton Gas terminal (Vikolainen et al, 2017), through which a third of the UK gas supply flows, and the Sizewell Nuclear power plant (Armstrong et al, 2015) (one of the largest investment areas in the UK). There are many locations in the South East of England where justification is seen to exist for continued use of hard adaptation measures (Jones et al, 2015); this includes infrastructure choke points in East Anglia and densely populated urban areas.…”

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“…Rupp- Nicholls (2007, p.1422) have outlined how 'regional assessments of Suffolk and Norfolk' have suggested there is large potential for Managed Realignment producing a 'net gain in inter-tidal habitats' and that 'the majority of Managed Realignment sites are situated on England's East Coast in particular East Anglia' where '30% of the UK salt marsh habitat' is located. Another soft adaptation measure, termed the 'Sand Engine', originating in the Netherlands, is also currently being considered for implementation in the coastal area surrounding Bacton Gas terminal (Vikolainen et al, 2017). In East Anglia, a broad span of projects of note have been undertaken focusing on coastal change and risk, combining stakeholders and multiple academic organisations.…”

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“…In so doing, understanding potential complex and cascading risk associated with impacts to specific infrastructure. Within East Anglia some examples of such infrastructure are: Bacton Gas Terminalsited on an eroding cliff (Vikolainen et al, 2017); Lowestoft's Bascule Bridge -prone to flooding during tidal surge events; Felixstowe port -the UK's busiest container port, vulnerable to flooding and erosion; and Sizewell Nuclear power plant -vulnerable to flooding. Key road transport routes such as the A12, linking North and South Suffolk, can also be identified as vulnerable, particularly in the Blythburgh area.…”

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Opening up the coast

Rumson

Hallett

2018

Ocean & Coastal Management

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Coastal zones attract human settlement, business and industry, and are instrumental to the functioning of societies both in coastal states and the wider global community. However, the oceans and coasts are under growing pressure as human practices change, populations rise and climate change impacts increase. In managing coastal regions, high quality data forms the basis of rational decision-making. Large volumes of 'triple bottom line' data exists representing a wide variety of environmental, social, and economic themes in coastal regions. Such data is especially crucial to development of environmental risk evaluations for the coast. The momentum driving the Open Source data movement across the world is accelerating and consequently, huge quantities of data are becoming freely available to the public. This presents a valuable opportunity for coastal managers, policy makers and land planners, who need to evaluate the full implications of their choices. Decision-makers frequently need to draw on many disparate datasets. However, this can be complicated by many factors, including a lack of awareness of the full range of datasets available. This paper seeks to explore this area, taking the UK as an example, to reveal how currently available open data sources relate to coastal management decision-making. Environmental risk management is a cross-cutting theme, relevant to all areas of coastal management. As such, this topic is discussed and addressed within a case study focusing on the vulnerable coastal region of East Anglia. In collation and analysis of coastal data Geographical Information Systems (GIS) can play an important role, in line with this GIS approaches were utilised within the case study. The case study led to development of a conceptual framework which can be applied to future coastal risk assessments, using Open Source data. The UK is currently at the forefront of the Open Source data movement and as such it is used as an example within this paper, however the issues addressed have international relevance, and the UK perspective is used to illustrate wider opportunities, resulting from freely available data sources, extending to management of coastal regions globally.

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Governance context for coastal innovations in England: The case of Sandscaping in North Norfolk

Cited by 21 publications

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The state as a stimulator of wastewater treatment policy: a comparative assessment of three subnational cases in central Mexico

The state as a stimulator of wastewater treatment policy: a comparative assessment of three subnational cases in central Mexico

Assessing the Governance Context Support for Creating a Pluvial Flood Risk Map with Climate Change Scenarios: The Flemish Subnational Case

Opening up the coast

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