Description
Book SynopsisClimate 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. Åkermark, E.C.H. Keskitalo, M. Massie, M.G. Reed, P. Scholten, D. Shrubsole, M. Turunen, J. Vola, G. Vulturius, T. Vuojala-Magga
Table of ContentsContents: 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 Åkermark 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
