Conditions for citizen co-production in a resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangement. A tentative framework

Conditions for citizen co-production in a resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangement. A tentative framework

Across Europe, there is an increasing trend towards citizen involvement in the implementation of flood risk governance. Policy-makers increasingly advocate co-produced flood risk governance (FRG), whereby citizens are actively engaged in the implementation of flood risk policy, for example, by takin...

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Published in:Journal of environmental policy & planning 2017-11, Vol.19 (6), p.827-842
Main Authors: Mees, Hannelore, Crabbé, Ann, Driessen, Peter P.J.
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Advocacy
Capital levy
citizen co-production
Citizen participation
Citizens
Climate change
Constraints
Ecology
Efficiency
Environmental risk
Flood control
Flood insurance
Flood management
Flood risk governance
Floods
Governance
Implementation
Legitimacy
Literature reviews
Policy making
Political participation
Production
Property
Public services
Resilience
responsibility distribution
Risk
Risk management
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Summary:Across Europe, there is an increasing trend towards citizen involvement in the implementation of flood risk governance. Policy-makers increasingly advocate co-produced flood risk governance (FRG), whereby citizens are actively engaged in the implementation of flood risk policy, for example, by taking property-level protection measures. In doing so, they aim to make FRG more resilient, efficient and legitimate [Mees, H., Crabbé, A., Alexander, M., Kaufmann, M., Bruzzone, L., Levy, L., & Lewandowski, J. (2016a). Coproducing flood risk management through citizen involvement: Insights from cross-country comparison in Europe. Ecology and Society, 21(3), 7.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08500-210307 ]. Co-production, however, also raises important questions concerning these aims. In this paper, the opportunities and limitations of and barriers to citizen co-production in FRG in terms of resilience, efficiency and legitimacy are investigated by an extensive review of literature on citizen co-production in other public services and on individual and community-based climate change adaptation and FRG. Based on this, a tentative framework is developed on the required conditions to enable co-produced FRG, which benefits both the resilience, efficiency and legitimacy of FRG.
ISSN:1523-908X
1522-7200