Moving out or living on a mound? Jointly planning a Dutch flood adaptation project |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, PO Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain;2. University College of Teacher Training, University of the Basque Country, Juan Ibañez de Sto. Domingo, 1, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain;3. INRA, UMR 1224, Ecologie Comportementale et Biologie des Populations de Poissons, Aquapôle, quartier Ibarron, 64310 Saint-Pée sur Nivelle, France;4. Escuela de Gestión Ambiental PUCESE, Eugenio Espejo y subida a Santa Cruz, 080150, Ecuador;1. Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands;2. Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change, Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;3. Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands;4. Department of Inland Water Systems, Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands;5. Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, USA;6. World Wild Fund for Nature, Asia Pacific, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam;7. Royal HaskoningDHV, Maritime & Resilience, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;8. Department of Environmental Science, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands;9. Department of Marine and Coastal Systems, Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands;10. State Key Lab of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;11. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands;12. Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh;13. Department of Civil Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium;14. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium;15. Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | All over the world spatial flood risk management policies are on the rise. This paper analyses the planning process for the Overdiepse polder, a so-called “Room for the River” project in the Netherlands. After high water in the 1990s, the Dutch government changed its flood risk management policy. While before 2000 it leaned heavily on dikes to separate water from land, after that year spatial measures to “let the water flow” were introduced. This required the integration of two formerly separated policy domains: flood risk management and land use planning. In the densely populated and economically highly developed Netherlands, returning space to the river unavoidably impacts on the lives and livelihoods of those who live and work along the rivers. Therefore, such spatial measures to decrease flood risk have to be negotiated with various stakeholders. The planning process towards making the Overdiepse polder suitable for temporary water storage deserves more in-depth analysis. We describe and analyze the development of relationships between key actors in the planning process, with a focus on planning practices rather than on assumptions about the existence of certain types and qualities of relationships. We conclude, among others, that citizen involvement can, under specific socio-political and institutional conditions, build trust among stakeholders and increase local legitimacy for interventions by government agencies. However, it should not be idealized as “self-governance” or assumed to be part of a unidirectional change in water interventions towards new relationships between actors. |
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| Keywords: | Flood adaptation Flood risk management Governance Participation Room for the River Spatial planning |
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