Partnership Funding in flood risk management: multi-level stakeholder engagement - a question of roles and power
Conference paper
Thaler, T. and Priest, S. 2016. Partnership Funding in flood risk management: multi-level stakeholder engagement - a question of roles and power. FLOODrisk 2016 - 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management. Lyon, France 17 - 21 Oct 2016 EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160720009
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Partnership Funding in flood risk management: multi-level stakeholder engagement - a question of roles and power |
Authors | Thaler, T. and Priest, S. |
Abstract | The paper examines the new flood risk policy discussion in England and Wales. The summer floods in England in 2007 caused large damages to the environment, economy and humanity. Following this key flood event, the Government has started to redefine the national flood and coastal risk management policy in England and Wales. The key issue in the new policy agenda is to encourage the responsibilities of local authorities and reduce the central role of flood risk management. This decentralisation in flood risk management has a series of consequences in the development of new governance structures. The main reason for this shift from central to local level is the belief that local authorities deal with public administration tasks in a more efficient way. Nevertheless, the main problem is the gap between the delegated tasks and the lack of transfer of resources, especially the issue concerning funding is still unclear and unresolved. This constraint will go with fiscal and administration cuts. The consequences will be (1) ‘hollowing out’ of the Government with the downscaling of the responsibility towards local actors and (2) without proportional transfer of resources to local authorities they will not be able to deal with new tasks. Therefore, in practice there are many limitations, barriers and concerns with the new policy direction. |
Research Group | Flood Hazard Research Centre |
Conference | FLOODrisk 2016 - 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management |
ISSN | 2267-1242 |
Publisher | EDP Sciences |
Publication dates | |
Online | 20 Oct 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Feb 2017 |
Accepted | 01 Mar 2016 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Additional information | Paper published in: E3S Web Conf. Volume 7, 2016, 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016), Article Number 20009 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160720009 |
Language | English |
Book title | E3S Web of Conferences, Volume 7, 2016, 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016) |
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