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Clumsy Floodplains - Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Clumsy Floodplains - Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Extreme floods cause enormous damage in floodplains, which levees
cannot prevent. Therefore, it is vital for spatial planning to
provide space for water retention in these areas. Land use
planners, water management agencies, landowners, and policymakers
all agree on this challenge, but attempts to make the space for
rivers to provide retention are generally not very successful.
Adopting an innovative interdisciplinary approach, this book
examines how society can manage the use of the floodplains along
rivers in the face of extreme floods, focusing in particular on the
relation between social arrangements and the elemental forces of
floods. The book firstly analyses why contemporary floodplain
management is so often clumsy and ineffective by looking at various
real-life situations in Germany, using Cultural Theory to provide a
much-needed, but previously neglected social perspective. These
analyses show a pattern of activity resulting from different
rationalities which dominate the floodplains in different phases.
During extreme floods, it is rational to manage floodplains as
dangerous areas; sandbags and disaster management dominate the
scene. After some time, the rationality of control takes over the
floodplain management; policymakers discuss flood risk and water
managers build levees. When public attention diminishes,
floodplains become inconspicuous until more and more stakeholders
regard floodplains as profitable land. The current system of
planning, law, and property rights even encourages stakeholders to
act out their plural rationalities. A permanent dynamic imbalance
of different rationalities leads to a robust social construction of
the floodplains which results in viable but clumsy floodplains. In
the course of time, however, the patterns of activity in the
floodplains lead to an increase in intensity and frequency of
extreme floods, and to more vulnerable potential damages in the
floodplains. Risk increases. Coping with this situation needs
another kind of floodplain management. This book proposes an
innovative concept - Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention
(LATER) - in "Clumsy Floodplains" as an alternative to levee-based
flood protection. The concept aims at reducing damage by extreme
floods in a catchment area by inundating less valuable areas to
protect places that are more valuable. It finally examines how this
LATER concept might be implemented in areas where there is
currently a clumsy style of floodplain management, what
interventions are required and how these might come about
effectively. Again, using Cultural Theory, the book puts forward a
valuable land policy solution which aims at implementing LATER in
clumsy floodplains and which develops an obligatory insurance
against natural hazards as a responsive land policy for LATER. The
book represents the author's PhD research, which he conducted as
research assistant at the department for Land Policy, Land
Management and Municipal Geoinformation at the School of Spatial
Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany.
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