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- Title
More Space for running waters: Negotiating institutional change in the Swiss flood protection system.
- Authors
Zaugg, Marc
- Abstract
Resulting in part from massive floods in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the institutional framework structuring flood protection in Switzerland has undergone considerable changes. This can be described as a 'change in philosophy' - a term meant to express the change from a primarily technologically oriented 'expert system' to one committed to the concept of sustainability. Sustainability, though, calls for the coordination of many expectations. Therefore, flood protection projects are today often negotiated against the backdrop of conflicting interests and are usually associated with a substantial change of the existing rules regarding the use and protection of a stretch of running water and its spatial environment. Nowadays, different actors from diverse social and state levels are participating in these conflicts about territoriality and scale. This article illustrates such a negotiation process using the example of a specific flood protection project on the River Thur in Eastern Switzerland.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; FLOOD control; NATURAL disasters; HUMAN territoriality; SUSTAINABLE urban development; EXPERT systems; GLOBAL environmental change
- Publication
GeoJournal, 2002, Vol 58, Issue 4, p275
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/B:GEJO.0000017958.01882.77