The PublicPrivate Divide in Flood Management

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The Public-Private Divide in Flood Management

• Willemijn Dicke
• Delft University of Technology
• Sander Meijerink
• Radboud University Nijmegen

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Trends in Flood Management

• From structural to non-structural measures
• Integral approach to whole safety chain
• From flood probability to risk based policies

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Strategies of flood risk management (modified
after Oosterberg et al.)
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Two dimensions of the public-private divide

•     Public Private
• Dimension 1
• Collectivity state --------------------
  market  
• Dimension 2
• Visibility in the open-------------hidden
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Shifts in the public-private divide

• Space for water discourse ? sharing of
  responsibilities with planning agencies
• Governance discourse ? Trend to involve civil
  society and private actors in flood risk
  management
• Shifts on the collectivity dimension (e.g. the
  involvement of the insurance industry) are
  accompanied by a shift on the visibility
  dimension (more transparency in decision making)