The Social Side of River Management

by De Groot, Wouter T.; Warner, Jeroen

• ISBN13: 9781611229806
• ISBN10: 1611229804
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

River management faces many challenges world-wide including climate change, flood risks and the demand for more adaptive and 'ecosystem-based' systems. Instead of raising the dikes even higher, the new adage for river managers is to give the rivers more space to drain their waters. This in turn implies that river management will become a social business, with strong involvement of local communities. This book offers various examples and theories on how to avoid conflict and enter into fruitful relationships with river communities.

Table of Contents

The Social Side of River Management: Introduction to the volume

Public perception of floods in Ãígueda municipality, Portugal

Three dimensions of place attachment: Bonds with the Rhine & Elbe rivers

Ways to embrace a river: On the need to articulate a new river ethics

Two cases of public participation in the Netherlands & the U.S.: Learning from deductive & inductive analysis

Success & failure factors in retention area planning along the Rhine in Germany

Space for the River, Space for Citizens? Planning the Ooij & Overdiep polders. the Netherlands

Building new rivers: A case study from the Netherlands

Joint river planning: Striking a balance between justifiable technocracy, desired collaboration & unavoidable conflict

Overview of contributors

Index

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