Climate Change and Flood Risk Management
Adaptation and Extreme Events at the Local Level
Published on 29. November 2013
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-78100-666-5 (ISBN)
Description
Climate Change and Flood Risk Management discusses and problematises the integration of adaptation to climate change in flood risk management.
The book explores adaptation to climate change in relation to flood risk events in advanced industrial states. It provides examples of how flood risk management, disaster and emergency management, and adaptation to climate change may intersect in a number of European and Canadian cases.
Taken together, the studies show that integration of adaptation in flood risk and emergency management may differ strongly - not only with risk, but with a number of institutional and contextual factors, including capacities and priorities in the specific municipal cases and within a national and wider context.
The book will be relevant to researchers involved with adaptation to climate change and those involved with comprehensive planning in relation to it. It will also be of interest to academics within the fields of environmental studies and the environmentally-oriented social sciences.
Contributors: J. Akermark, E.C.H. Keskitalo, M. Massie, M.G. Reed, P. Scholten, D. Shrubsole, M. Turunen, J. Vola, G. Vulturius, T. Vuojala-Magga
The book explores adaptation to climate change in relation to flood risk events in advanced industrial states. It provides examples of how flood risk management, disaster and emergency management, and adaptation to climate change may intersect in a number of European and Canadian cases.
Taken together, the studies show that integration of adaptation in flood risk and emergency management may differ strongly - not only with risk, but with a number of institutional and contextual factors, including capacities and priorities in the specific municipal cases and within a national and wider context.
The book will be relevant to researchers involved with adaptation to climate change and those involved with comprehensive planning in relation to it. It will also be of interest to academics within the fields of environmental studies and the environmentally-oriented social sciences.
Contributors: J. Akermark, E.C.H. Keskitalo, M. Massie, M.G. Reed, P. Scholten, D. Shrubsole, M. Turunen, J. Vola, G. Vulturius, T. Vuojala-Magga
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78100-666-5 (9781781006665)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Edited by E.Carina H. Keskitalo, Professor of Political Science, Department of Geography and Economic History, Umea University, Sweden
Content
Contents:
1. Introduction. Local Organisation to Address Flood Risks: Possibilities for Adaptation to Climate Change?
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
2. Adaptive Capacity Building in Saxony: Responses in Planning and Policy to the 2002 Flood
Gregor Vulturius and E. Carina H. Keskitalo
3. Flood Risks Along the Torne River between Sweden and Finland
E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Jenny Akermark and Joonas Vola
4. A History of Flood Management Strategies in Canada Revisited
Dan Shrubsole
5. Policy Change and Policy Learning for Enhanced Flood Policies at Local, Subnational and EU Level
Gregor Vulturius
6. Cumberland House in the Saskatchewan River Delta: Flood Memory and the Municipal Response, 2005 and 2011
Merle Massie and Maureen G. Reed
7. Experiences with an Arctic River - Flood Prevention in the Town of Ivalo
Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Minna Turunen
8. Flooding and the Carrot River Watershed Source Water Protection Plan, Saskatchewan: Civic Engagement and Causal Stories
Merle Massie
9. Dutch Approaches to Flood Risks: Developments in Integrative Water Management and the Synchronization of Public and Private Agendas for Climate Adaptation in the Netherlands
Peter Scholten
10. Conclusion: Flood Management and Adaptation - Viewing Flood Events in Context
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Index
1. Introduction. Local Organisation to Address Flood Risks: Possibilities for Adaptation to Climate Change?
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
2. Adaptive Capacity Building in Saxony: Responses in Planning and Policy to the 2002 Flood
Gregor Vulturius and E. Carina H. Keskitalo
3. Flood Risks Along the Torne River between Sweden and Finland
E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Jenny Akermark and Joonas Vola
4. A History of Flood Management Strategies in Canada Revisited
Dan Shrubsole
5. Policy Change and Policy Learning for Enhanced Flood Policies at Local, Subnational and EU Level
Gregor Vulturius
6. Cumberland House in the Saskatchewan River Delta: Flood Memory and the Municipal Response, 2005 and 2011
Merle Massie and Maureen G. Reed
7. Experiences with an Arctic River - Flood Prevention in the Town of Ivalo
Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Minna Turunen
8. Flooding and the Carrot River Watershed Source Water Protection Plan, Saskatchewan: Civic Engagement and Causal Stories
Merle Massie
9. Dutch Approaches to Flood Risks: Developments in Integrative Water Management and the Synchronization of Public and Private Agendas for Climate Adaptation in the Netherlands
Peter Scholten
10. Conclusion: Flood Management and Adaptation - Viewing Flood Events in Context
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Index