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- Title
Stakeholder responses to future flood management ideas in the Rhine River Basin: nature or neighbour in Hell's Angle.
- Authors
Peter E. van der Werff
- Abstract
Summary This article identifies responses of stakeholders to future management of the Rhine River Basin, notably to the plan Rhine In The Future. This plan foresees the construction of a bypass between the rivers Rhine and IJssel, the Green River. The Green River would be a nature reserve area that can be flooded during high water discharges. The inhabitants of the area would be permanently relocated. Their defence of stakes will be coloured by patterns of acting and thinking that belong to respectively postmodernity, modernity and pre-modernity. These different colourings show in negotiation skills, levels of organisations, alertness, power positions, and access to local and outside resources. Most local stakeholders appreciate the postmodern environmentalism that leads to the greening of river management, but regret the loss of their strong, pre-modern, social cohesion. Whereas they consider national interests in a rather balanced way, they doubt the necessity of the bypass for safety reasons. They have confidence in financial compensations for relocation, but will negotiate about these compensations with skill and determination. Their tactics will be reinforced by collective efforts that stem from their social cohesion.
- Subjects
RHINE River; FLOODS; STAKEHOLDERS; INVESTORS
- Publication
Regional Environmental Change, 2004, Vol 4, Issue 2/3, p145
- ISSN
1436-3798
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10113-004-0073-z