Victim pressure, institutional inertia and climate change adaptation: The case of flood risk |
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| Authors: | Tim Harries Edmund Penning-Rowsell |
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| Institution: | a Department of Geography, Kings College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK;b Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, Trent Park Campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ, UK |
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| Abstract: | Interviews were conducted with risk managers in a case-study area in England to determine the factors influencing the choice between more traditional, engineering based, adaptation to flood risk and those focussing on vulnerability reduction. The findings of in-depth analysis of these interviews have implications for climate change adaptation as a whole. They suggest that government policies to implement a broader range of adaptation measures might be hampered by institutional cultures formed when structural, engineered approaches were the norm. Political decentralisation and the fashion for public consultation exacerbate this effect, leaving decision-makers more responsive to the influence of those directly affected by natural hazards than they are to the needs of the wider population or to policy pronouncements by government. |
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| Keywords: | Adaptation Environmental risk Institutional inertia Flooding Engineering discourse Public consultation Victim pressure |
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