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Abstract
This book examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for water governance. Different examples from Europe and the United States of America are discussed that aim to ‘green’ rivers, including increasing river discharge for flood management, enhancing natural and landscape values, promoting local or regional economic development, and urban regeneration.
Making Space for the River presents not only opportunities and synergies but also risks as it crosses established institutional boundaries and touches on multiple stakeholder interests, which can easily clash. Making Space for the River helps the reader to understand the policy and governance dynamics that lead to these tensions and pays attention to a variety of attempts to organize effective and legitimate governance approaches.
The book helps to realize connections between policy domains, problem frames, and goals of different actors at different levels that contribute to decisive and legitimate action. Making Space for the River has an international comparative character that sheds light upon both the country-specific governance dilemmas which relate to specific state traditions and institutional characteristics of national water management, but also uncovers interesting similarities which provide us with building blocks to formulate more generic lessons about the governance of Making Space for the River in different institutional and social contexts.
The authors of this book come from a variety of disciplines including public administration, town and country planning, geography and anthropology, and these different disciplines bring multiple ways of knowing and understanding of Making Space for the River programs. The book combines interdisciplinary scientific analyses of Space for the River projects and programs with practical knowing and lessons-drawing. Making Space for the River is written for both practitioners and scholars and students of environmental policy, spatial planning, land use and water management.
Editors: Jeroen Warner, Assistant Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Arwin van Buuren, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Jurian Edelenbos, Professor of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover\r | Cover | ||
| Contents | iv | ||
| About the Editors and Contributors | xi | ||
| ABOUT THE EDITORS | xi | ||
| ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS | xi | ||
| Preface | xiii | ||
| Chapter 1: Making Space for the River: governance challenges\r | 1 | ||
| 1.1 INTRODUCTION: THE RIVER AS A SOURCE OF SENTIMENTS | 1 | ||
| 1.2 MAKING SPACE FOR VALUES: MAKING MIND-SPACE | 3 | ||
| 1.3 MAKING SPACE: BLURRING BOUNDARIES | 4 | ||
| 1.4 MAKING SPACE FOR THE RIVER: A NEW AVENUE FOR WATER GOVERNANCE? | 5 | ||
| 1.5 MAKING SPACE COMES AT A COST | 7 | ||
| 1.6 MAKING SPACE FOR THE RIVER: HOW NEW IS THE CONCEPT ACTUALLY | 8 | ||
| 1.7 GOAL, FRAMEWORK, AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK\r | 9 | ||
| 1.7.1 Goal and framework | 9 | ||
| 1.7.2 Introducing the contributions | 10 | ||
| REFERENCES | 11 | ||
| Chapter 2: Space for the River: a condensed state of the art\r | 14 | ||
| 2.1 INTRODUCTION | 14 | ||
| 2.2 METHODS | 14 | ||
| 2.3 SPACE FOR THE RIVER: THE BUILDING STONES OF A PARADIGM SHIFT | 16 | ||
| 2.3.1 Management more equal relation between men and nature | 16 | ||
| 2.3.2 Holistic and local | 17 | ||
| 2.3.3 Integrated approach | 17 | ||
| 2.3.4 Interactive and participative processes | 18 | ||
| 2.3.5 Anticipating and proactive | 18 | ||
| 2.4 CAUSES FOR THE SHIFT TO SPACE FOR THE RIVER | 18 | ||
| 2.5 SPACE FOR THE RIVER: DIFFERENT DRIVERS WITHIN THE SAME PARADIGM | 20 | ||
| 2.6 STRIKING A BALANCE: THE VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF SPACE FOR THE RIVER | 24 | ||
| 2.7 SPACE FOR THE RIVER: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS | 26 | ||
| REFERENCES | 27 | ||
| Chapter 3: Space for the River IJssel: Tortuous quests for striking an acceptable balance between water, nature and development\r | 32 | ||
| 3.1 INTRODUCTION | 32 | ||
| 3.2 THE DUTCH WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: ITS HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY | 32 | ||
| 3.3 GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING\r | 33 | ||
| 3.3.1 General background information | 33 | ||
| 3.3.2 The river IJssel | 33 | ||
| 3.4 DEVELOPMENT IN DUTCH RIVER MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY | 35 | ||
| 3.4.1 The organization of the “Space for the River” programme\r | 35 | ||
| 3.4.2 Drivers for “Space for the River”\r | 36 | ||
| 3.5 CASE ILLUSTRATION: KAMPEN IJSSELDELTA SOUTH\r | 37 | ||
| 3.5.1 Introduction | 37 | ||
| 3.5.2 Issues concerning sectoral-integrated approach | 37 | ||
| 3.5.3 Expert-participatory approach | 39 | ||
| 3.5.4 Issues of scale | 40 | ||
| 3.6 CASE STUDY: IJSSELSPRONG ZUTPHEN\r | 41 | ||
| 3.6.1 Introduction | 41 | ||
| 3.6.2 Scaling up to regional level | 42 | ||
| 3.6.3 Public consultation and local response | 43 | ||
| 3.6.4 Expertise and counterexpertise | 44 | ||
| 3.7 CONCLUSIONS | 45 | ||
| REFERENCES | 47 | ||
| Chapter 4: Dealing with uncertainties in the Dutch Room for the River programme: a comparison between the Overdiep polder and Noordwaard\r | 49 | ||
| 4.1 INTRODUCTION | 49 | ||
| 4.2 THE OVERDIEP POLDER | 50 | ||
| 4.2.1 The role of innovation | 51 | ||
| 4.2.2 Dealing with uncertainties | 52 | ||
| 4.2.3 Government-citizen relationships | 53 | ||
| 4.2.4 Relationships between the inhabitants | 53 | ||
| 4.3 THE NOORDWAARD AREA\r | 54 | ||
| 4.3.1 Introduction | 54 | ||
| 4.3.2 Regional involvement with organized interest groups | 54 | ||
| 4.3.3 Representation problems in stakeholder involvement | 55 | ||
| 4.3.4 Innovation and front-runner status | 56 | ||
| 4.3.5 Flood safety and spatial quality | 56 | ||
| 4.3.6 Change of project management led to process change | 57 | ||
| 4.4 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION | 58 | ||
| 4.4.1 Innovation: how innovative were these projects? | 59 | ||
| REFERENCES | 60 | ||
| Chapter 5: CalFed and collaborative watershed management: success despite failure?\r | 61 | ||
| 5.1 INTRODUCTION | 61 | ||
| 5.2 CASE OVERVIEW\r | 62 | ||
| 5.2.1 Historical context | 62 | ||
| 5.2.2 Geographical context | 63 | ||
| 5.2.3 Institutional context | 64 | ||
| 5.3 ANALYTICAL CHALLENGES IN POLICY EVALUATION | 67 | ||
| 5.3.1 Counterfactual analysis | 67 | ||
| 5.3.2 Institutional evolution | 69 | ||
| 5.3.3 Uncertainty and natural variation | 70 | ||
| 5.4 CONCLUSION | 72 | ||
| REFERENCES | 73 | ||
| Chapter 6: Integrated water resources management in the United States: The Rogue and Willamette River cases\r | 77 | ||
| 6.1 INTRODUCTION | 77 | ||
| 6.2 HISTORICAL TRENDS AND POLICY CONTEXT | 77 | ||
| 6.2.1 Historical overview | 77 | ||
| 6.2.2 Policy context | 78 | ||
| 6.2.3 Policy dynamics | 79 | ||
| 6.3 THE OREGON EXPERIENCE | 80 | ||
| 6.3.1 The Rogue river | 80 | ||
| 6.3.2 The Willamette river | 82 | ||
| 6.4 DISCUSSION | 82 | ||
| 6.4.1 Sector integration | 82 | ||
| 6.4.2 Scale | 83 | ||
| 6.4.3 Participation | 83 | ||
| 6.4.4 Funding | 84 | ||
| 6.5 CONCLUSION | 84 | ||
| REFERENCES | 85 | ||
| Chapter 7: Finding “Space forWater”: crossing concrete policy thresholds in England\r | 87 | ||
| 7.1 INTRODUCTION | 87 | ||
| 7.2 CHARTING THE LOSS OF ENGLAND’S FLOODPLAINS ANDWETLANDS | 88 | ||
| 7.3 THE CHANGING SCENE OF RIVER MANAGEMENT IN ENGLAND: FROM \r“FLOOD DEFENCE” TO “MAKING SPACE FOR THE RIVER” | 89 | ||
| 7.4 NEW INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND “MAKING SPACE FOR WATER”\r | 90 | ||
| 7.5 CASE ILLUSTRATION: RIVER QUAGGY AND SUTCLIFFE PARK, GREENWICH | 91 | ||
| 7.5.1 Reflexive policy making: conflicting ideas and solutions | 92 | ||
| 7.5.2 The consultation process | 93 | ||
| 7.5.3 Multi-disciplinary implementation of the scheme | 94 | ||
| 7.6 BEYOND THE THAMES REGION | 96 | ||
| 7.7 AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS: CROSSING POLICY THRESHOLDS\r | 97 | ||
| 7.7.1 Institutional flood defences? | 97 | ||
| REFERENCES | 99 | ||
| Chapter 8: A tale of two channels for the Thames\r | 101 | ||
| 8.1 INTRODUCTION | 101 | ||
| 8.2 RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY AT THE INTERFACE OF WATER AND SPACE\r | 103 | ||
| 8.2.1 Planning between a rock and a hard place | 103 | ||
| 8.2.2 The flood scheme | 104 | ||
| 8.3 SITE SELECTION AND JUSTIFICATION\r | 105 | ||
| 8.3.1 Looking for opportunities: why Maidenhead? | 105 | ||
| 8.3.2 Window of Opportunity | 107 | ||
| 8.4 SELECTION OF ALTERNATIVES | 108 | ||
| 8.5 CONSULTING LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS | 109 | ||
| 8.6 RENEWED URGENCY AND SURPRISING EFFECTS\r | 111 | ||
| 8.6.1 The 1998 and 2000 floods | 111 | ||
| 8.6.2 The channel’s inauguration and the 2003 floods | 112 | ||
| 8.6.3 New lease on life for integrated river plan? | 113 | ||
| 8.7 DISCUSSION\r | 114 | ||
| 8.7.1 Competing problem frames | 114 | ||
| 8.7.2 Competing strategies | 115 | ||
| REFERENCES | 117 | ||
| Chapter 9: Land policy for German Rivers: making Space for the Rivers\r | 119 | ||
| 9.1 INTRODUCTION | 119 | ||
| 9.2 SPACE FOR THE RIVERS: A LAND POLICY | 119 | ||
| 9.2.1 The emergence of Space for the Rivers | 120 | ||
| 9.2.2 The manifestation of Space for the Rivers | 121 | ||
| 9.3 IMPLEMENTATION DEFICITS IN SAXONY-ANHALT | 122 | ||
| 9.3.1 Aims | 123 | ||
| 9.3.2 Options | 123 | ||
| 9.3.3 Implementation | 124 | ||
| 9.3.4 Restrictions | 124 | ||
| 9.4 POLICY RESPONSE: THE FLOOD CONTROL ACT OF 2005 | 125 | ||
| 9.4.1 Options | 125 | ||
| 9.4.2 Implementation | 126 | ||
| 9.4.3 Restrictions | 126 | ||
| 9.5 FAILED RESPONSE: A NEW ATTEMPT | 127 | ||
| 9.6 CONCLUSION | 128 | ||
| REFERENCES | 128 | ||
| Chapter 10: Strong sentiments on the Scheldt: dike displacements in Flanders and the Netherlands\r | 132 | ||
| 10.1 DIKE DISPLACEMENTS AROUND A PRECIOUS ESTUARY | 132 | ||
| 10.2 THE SCHELDT: LEGACY AND BONE OF CONTENTION | 134 | ||
| 10.3 DISCURSIVE FRAMING AND CONTROVERSIAL POLICY PROCESSES | 136 | ||
| 10.4 DEEPENING AND WIDENING THE SCHELDT | 137 | ||
| 10.4.1 The general debate about dike displacements in Zeeland | 138 | ||
| 10.4.2 Dike displacement and integrated area development: Waterdunen/Perkpolder | 139 | ||
| 10.4.3 Dike displacement for the sake of nature: Hertogin Hedwigepolder | 140 | ||
| 10.5 THE FLEMISH STRUGGLE: THE SIGMA PLAN AND ITS ACTUALIZATION | 141 | ||
| 10.5.1 Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde | 142 | ||
| 10.6 ANALYZING DISCOURSES AND COUNTER-DISCOURSES | 143 | ||
| 10.7 CONCLUSIONS AND REFLECTION | 144 | ||
| REFERENCES | 144 | ||
| Chapter 11: Flood-risk and watershed management conflicts in France: Upper catchment management of the river Rhône\r | 146 | ||
| 11.1 INTRODUCTION: SPACE FOR THE RIVER POLICIES IN FRANCE | 146 | ||
| 11.2 FRENCH FLOOD-RISK MANAGEMENT USING PPR PROMOTES LOCAL CONFLICTS | 148 | ||
| 11.3 APPLICATION OF PPR | 149 | ||
| 11.4 WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND ISSUES OF MUNICPAL EQUITY | 153 | ||
| 11.5 HOW TO UNDERSTAND THESE CONFLICTS? | 155 | ||
| 11.6 CONCLUSIONS | 156 | ||
| REFERENCES | 157 | ||
| Chapter 12: Integrated and participatory planning to create more Space for the River Danube in Romania\r | 159 | ||
| 12.1 INTRODUCTION | 159 | ||
| 12.2 ROMANIAN CONTEXT\r | 160 | ||
| 12.2.1 Physical setting | 160 | ||
| 12.2.2 Policy setting | 161 | ||
| 12.2.3 Public-administrative setting | 162 | ||
| 12.3 CASE STUDY “SPACE FOR THE RIVER IN ROMANIA”\r | 164 | ||
| 12.3.1 Project history, organization and objective | 164 | ||
| 12.3.2 Project course and outcomes | 164 | ||
| 12.3.3 Role of experts and stakeholders | 167 | ||
| 12.4 DISCUSSION | 167 | ||
| 12.5 CONCLUSIONS | 169 | ||
| REFERENCES | 169 | ||
| Chapter 13: Giving Space to the Tisza River in Hungary\r | 172 | ||
| 13.1 INTRODUCTION | 172 | ||
| 13.2 HISTORY OF WATER MANAGEMENT | 172 | ||
| 13.3 POLICY INTEGRATION | 175 | ||
| 13.4 GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL SCALE | 177 | ||
| 13.5 COOPERATION, PARTICIPATION AND LEARNING | 177 | ||
| 13.6 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION | 179 | ||
| Acknowledgement | 180 | ||
| REFERENCES | 180 | ||
| Chapter 14: Space for the River: governance challenges and lessons\r | 182 | ||
| 14.1 INTRODUCTION | 182 | ||
| 14.2 ORIGINS AND VALUES OF SPACE FOR THE RIVER APPROACHES | 184 | ||
| 14.3 THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF SPACE FOR THE RIVER | 186 | ||
| 14.4 GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES TO REALIZE SPACE FOR THE RIVER | 189 | ||
| 14.5 SPACE FOR THE RIVER AS INTEGRATED RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT? | 190 | ||
| 14.6 GOVERNANCE LESSONS: HOW TO REALIZE GOVERNANCE CAPACITY AND LEGITIMACY? | 192 | ||
| 14.6.1 Elements of legitimacy | 193 | ||
| 14.6.2 Elements of governance capacity | 194 | ||
| REFERENCES | 195 |