From Flood Safety to Spatial Management Expert-Policy Interactions in Dutch and US Flood Governance /

• Main Author: Bergsma, Emmy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice,
• Subjects: Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental management.; Risk management.; Public policy.; Environmental geography.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Risk Management.; Public Policy.; Environmental Geography.

This book deals with the introduction of a new type of "spatial measures" in flood governance. In contrast to traditional "safety measures" that aim to provide protection against floods by building structural flood defenses such as levees and flood walls, the goal of spatial meas...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction
• 2.Research design
• 3.The political genealogy of the Zuiderzee Works: The establishment of a safety discourse
• 4. Engineering space: Integrated flood risk management in the Netherlands
• 5.From levees to insurance: The spatial turn in US flood governance
• 6.The evolution of US flood governance: Overcoming uncertainty and value conflict
• 7. A comparative analysis of expert-influence in Dutch and US flood governance. .