Garvey, A orcid.org/0000-0003-1538-8549 and Paavola, J orcid.org/0000-0001-5720-466X (2022) Community action on natural flood management and the governance of a catchment-based approach in the UK. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32 (1). pp. 3-16. ISSN 1756-932X
Abstract
There is increasing interest in natural flood management (NFM) and the delivery of public environmental goods. Yet the implementation of NFM can be ad-hoc and is regionally diverse. Communities often play a role in NFM and thus we assess NFM governance in the UK and communities' position within it. We develop a theoretical framework using the concepts of public goods, social capital, collective action and polycentrism and use it to examine the governance of the design and implementation of NFM in Pickering and Calderdale in Yorkshire, to contribute to a debate on how NFM should be managed, by whom, and under what governance arrangements. Drawing on stakeholder interviews, we find that the participation of community flood groups (CFGs) in NFM improved community access to strategic conversations on flood risk management (FRM). In turn CFGs raised the public profile of NFM, enabled the deployment of NFM measures, and helped to generate the evidence base on them. We conclude that there is a need for a polycentric community and catchment-based approach to better coordinate NFM governance across and between scales, to support community access and contribution to flood risk strategy, and to foster sustainable flood risk management.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Environmental Policy and Governance published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | catchment-based approach, collective action, flood risk management, governance, natural flood management, polycentrism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/LK006576/1 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/R009708/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2021 13:26 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/eet.1955 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175614 |