Public involvement in the Red River Basin management decisions and preparedness for the next flood

Haque, C. Emdad; Kolba, Michael; Morton, Pauline; Quinn, Nancy P.

doi:10.1016/j.hazards.2003.10.001

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“…Key arguments are to increase trust, legitimacy of local stakeholders in public administration (Krause and Dan Nielsen, 2014;Mees et al, 2014). In the literature, scholars often mentioned the inflexibility of public administration to reacting to the outcome of public participation processes (Haque et al, 2002;Speller, 2005;Reed, 2008;Tseng and Penning-Rowsell, 2012). Other problems are related to the lack of institutional support, about how to organise/deal with stakeholder engagement processes, to the lack of communi-cation, information sharing, especially to the lack of resources, particularly with respect to large participation processes (Thaler and Priest, 2014).…”

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Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management—A question of roles and power: Lessons from England

Thaler

Levin-Keitel

2016

Environmental Science & Policy

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A b s t r a c tIn the past years, stakeholder engagement has become more important in flood risk management. On the one hand stakeholder engagement is often declared as a better way of management, a more successful way to reach consensus in policy discussions. On the other hand is the implementation of increasing stakeholder engagement far away from being as positive, where stakeholder engagement often ends in diverse difficulties and conflicts between political leaders and stakeholder groups. This paper aims to highlight participatory governance in flood risk management to provide an overview of the potential contributions and challenges of a participatory and collaborative governance approach. In this

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management—A question of roles and power: Lessons from England

Thaler

Levin-Keitel

2016

Environmental Science & Policy

140

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“…The above processes showed that the public involvement through public hearings influenced the final recommendations of the IJC. The IJC treated public input as especially valid and important, and they were successful in incorporating many of the public's major concerns into the final report (Haque, Kolba, Morton, & Quinn, 2002).…”

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Community-based Disaster Management and Its Salient Features: A Policy Approach to People-centred Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Azad

Uddin

Zaman

et al. 2019

Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development

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The discourse of disaster management has undergone significant change in recent years, shifting from relief and response to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community-based management. Organisations and vulnerable countries engaged in DRR have moved from a reactive, top-down mode to proactive, community-focused disaster management. In this article, we focus on how national disaster management policy initiatives in Bangladesh are implementing community-based approaches at the local level and developing cross-scale partnerships to reduce disaster risk and vulnerability, thus enhancing community resilience to disasters. We relied chiefly on secondary data, employing content analysis for reviewing documents, which were supplemented by primary data from two coastal communities in Kalapara Upazila in Patuakhali District. Our findings revealed that to address the country’s vulnerabilities to natural disasters, the Government of Bangladesh has developed and implemented numerous national measures and policies over the years with the aim of strengthening community-focused risk reduction, decentralising disaster management, developing cross-scale partnerships and enhancing community resilience. Communities are working together to achieve an all-hazard management goal, accepting ownership to reduce vulnerability and actively participating in risk-reduction strategies at multiple levels. Community-based disaster preparedness activities are playing a critical role in developing their adaptive capacity and resilience to disasters. Further policy and research are required for a closer examination of the dynamics of community-based disaster management, the role of local-level institutions and community organisations in partnerships and resilience building for successful disaster management.

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“…Moving away from a top‐down approach, better involvement of the public and the emergence of horizontal institutional collaboration have started due to different reasons: as a consequence of flood events and pressure of local citizens in Bradford, UK (Cashman, ); by the decision of governmental bodies in Manitoba, Canada (Haque et al ., ); or as an initiative of academic institutes in Saxony, Germany (Wirth et al ., ). The examples of flood risk management concepts mentioned above are mostly from the United States, UK, the Netherlands and Germany.…”

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Local perception of floods in the Czech Republic and recent changes in state flood management strategies

Vávra

Lapka

Cudlínová

et al. 2015

J Flood Risk Management

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A shift from flood protection to flood risk management is occurring in many Western countries, but less is known about the social perception of floods and flood management changes in Central and Eastern Europe. The objective of this paper is to study the social perception of selected water‐related issues and to find possible compatibilities with existing flood management. A sociological survey was conducted within a local population living in flood plains in South Bohemia (N = 89). The results are discussed in relation to changes in Czech flood management governmental policies over the last 15 years. We conclude that the local population accepts floods as regular events, expects their increased frequency and prefers natural measures of flood mitigation. Czech flood management governmental policies are moving from flood defence and hard structural measures (e.g. dams) to flood risk management and more natural solutions (polders, free spill, etc.). However, there is still a strong legacy of a top‐down approach in governmental policies that hinders full incorporation of local perceptions into flood management.

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Public involvement in the Red River Basin management decisions and preparedness for the next flood

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management—A question of roles and power: Lessons from England

Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management—A question of roles and power: Lessons from England

Community-based Disaster Management and Its Salient Features: A Policy Approach to People-centred Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Local perception of floods in the Czech Republic and recent changes in state flood management strategies

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