Risk-sharing policies in the context of the French Flood Prevention Action Programmes

Erdlenbruch, Katrin; Thoyer, Sophie; Grelot, Frédéric; Kast, Robert; Enjolras, Geoffroy

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.09.002

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“…In the case of floodplain restoration, this would mean that additional damage to agricultural areas does not need to be compensated in practice in order that the project is considered economically efficient. However, the analysis of feedback experience on floodplain restoration in France shows that real compensation is an indispensable lever for effective implementation (Erdlenbruch et al, 2009). For a review of compensation to land managers for flood risk management services, see Beedell et al (2012).…”

Section: Suitability Of Existing Ex-ante Methods To Assess Floodplainmentioning

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“…Flood risk management including floodplain restoration actions implies that, to protect vulnerable (generally urban) areas, less vulnerable (generally agricultural) land will be more exposed to flooding Erdlenbruch et al, 2009). …”

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“…We focus only on methods to assess economic damage to agriculture. But the issue of flood damage to agriculture could also be tackled from other perspectives not considered here: an ex-post description of the damage due to a specific flooding event (Twining et al, 2007;Chatterton et al, 2010;Posthumus et al, 2009;Morris and Brewin, 2013), defining financial damage for farmers Morris and Brewin, 2013), and determining compensation in the case of floodplain restoration (Erdlenbruch et al, 2009;Beedell et al, 2012).…”

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Abstract. In Europe, economic evaluation of flood management projects is increasingly used to help decision making. At the same time, the management of flood risk is shifting towards new concepts such as giving more room to water by restoring floodplains. Agricultural areas are particularly targeted by projects following those concepts since they are frequently located in floodplain areas and since the potential damage to such areas is expected to be lower than to cities or industries for example. Additional or avoided damage to agriculture may have a major influence on decisions concerning these projects and the economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture is thus an issue that needs to be tackled.The question of flood damage to agriculture can be addressed in different ways. This paper reviews and analyzes existing studies which have developed or used damage functions for agriculture in the framework of an economic appraisal of flood management projects. A conceptual framework of damage categories is proposed for the agricultural sector. The damage categories were used to structure the review. Then, a total of 42 studies are described, with a detailed review of 26 of them, based on the following criteria: types of damage considered, the influential flood parameters chosen, and monetized damage indicators used.The main recommendations resulting from this review are that even if existing methods have already focused on damage to crops, still some improvement is needed for crop damage functions. There is also a need to develop damage functions for other agricultural damage categories, including farm buildings and their contents. Finally, to cover all possible agricultural damage, and in particular loss of activity, a farm scale approach needs to be used.

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“…As a consequence, the private company offered funds to farmers if they followed specific cropping patterns with less impact on the water quality (Deffontaines et al 2000). Dealing with externalities is often in conjunction with payments for ecosystem services, such as flood protection of cropping areas through compensation to cover losses (Erdlenbruch et al 2009). …”

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Groundwater resources are part of larger social-ecological systems. In this chapter, we review the various dimensions of these complex systems in order to uncover the diversity of elements at stake in the evolution of an aquifer and the loci for possible actions to control its dynamics. Two case studies illustrate how the state of an aquifer is embedded in a web of biophysical and sociopolitical processes. We propose here a holistic view through an IGM-scape that describes the various possible pathways of evolution for a groundwater related social-ecological system. Then we describe the elements of this IGM-scape starting with physical entities and processes, including relations with surface water and quality issues. Interactions with society bring an additional layer of considerations, including decisions on groundwater abstraction, land use changes and even energy related choices. Finally we point out the policy levers for groundwater management and their possible consequences for an aquifer, taking into account the complexity of pathways opened by these levers.

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“…Consider the work of de Bruin et al (2009), a recent adaptation inventory for the Netherlands, one of the most advanced countries with the greatest vulnerability to climate change. Table 4 ( de Bruin et al 2009:36) shows costs that are quantified, but benefits that are not.…”

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ABSTRACT. Developing an approach to governing adaptation to climate change is severely hampered by the dictatorship of the present when the needs of future generations are inadequately represented in current policy making. We posit this problem as a function of the attributes of adaptation policy making, including deep uncertainty and nonstationarity, where past observations are not reliable predictors of future outcomes. Our research links organizational decision-making attributes with adaptation decision making and identifies cases in which adaptation actions cause spillovers, free riding, and distributional impacts. We develop a governing framework for adaptation that we believe will enable policy, planning, and major long-term development decisions to be made appropriately at all levels of government in the face of the deep uncertainty and nonstationarity caused by climate change. Our framework requires that approval of projects with an expected life span of 30 years or more in the built environment include minimum building standards that integrate forecasted climate change impacts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) intermediate scenario. The intermediate IPCC scenario must be downscaled to include local or regional temperature, water availability, sea level rise, susceptibility to forest fires, and human habitation impacts to minimize climate-change risks to the built environment. The minimum standard is systematically updated every six years to facilitate learning by formal and informal organizations. As a minimum standard, the governance framework allows jurisdictions to take stronger actions to increase their climate resilience and thus maintain system flexibility.

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Risk-sharing policies in the context of the French Flood Prevention Action Programmes

Cited by 63 publications

References 8 publications

Review Article: Economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture – review and analysis of existing methods

Review Article: Economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture – review and analysis of existing methods

Disentangling the Complexity of Groundwater Dependent Social-ecological Systems

A Governing Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in the Built Environment

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