Reframing Polyrational Floodplains
Land Policy for Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20512226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Hartmann (0000-0001-6707-7174, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-30 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/nc.2010.050102 |
| OpenAlex | W2021379978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Why are recent attempts to give space to the rivers so unsuccessful? Floodplain management is a complex social process with many stakeholders, who pursue different rationalities before, during, and after floods. The resulting patterns of activities of the stakeholders have led to a technological lock-in. This article uses Cultural Theory to analyze the stakeholders' different framing of floodplain management. The concept of Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention (LATER) is then introduced as a way to create space for the rivers. Its implementation can be facilitated if the different rationalities, framing the patterns of activity in the floodplains are taken into account. Therefore, based on interviews with landowners, water managers, land use planners, and policymakers the rationalities are uncovered and different proposals for land policies are presented. The result is a land policy based on an obligatory insurance against natural hazards
Business · Civil engineering · Cognitive reframing · Economics · Emergency management · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Flood myth · Floodplain · Geography · Political science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |