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Policy Processes in Flood Risk Management
Understanding policy processes is no less important in flood risk management (FRM) than in other water policy domains. In this chapter we summarize three important theories about the policy process, being a set of procedures whereby policy is written (usually with government decisions), debated, approved, implemented and evaluated (although policy evaluation is not covered here in detail). Baumgartner and Jones's idea of ‘punctuated equilibrium’, imported from evolutionary biology, attempts to understand how groups of actors influence policy priorities; the idea postulates episodic periods of rapid policy evolution. John Kingdon's multiple streams approach (MSA) is concerned with understanding how issues materialize, how they get the attention of policy‐makers, how they are framed as ideas in policy agendas, and why ideas ‘have their time’. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) literature offers a viable alternative by offering no beginning and end to what is seen as a continuous and quintessentially competitive policy process. In most countries and regions of the world, FRM policy is closely related to the flood risk likely to be found there. Case studies are presented from the UK, South Africa, Tanzania and Bangladesh. The policy process challenges as outlined in these four cases are critiqued, but offer some practical lessons supporting the design of better processes and better FRM policy and policy outcomes in the future.
Policy Processes in Flood Risk Management
Understanding policy processes is no less important in flood risk management (FRM) than in other water policy domains. In this chapter we summarize three important theories about the policy process, being a set of procedures whereby policy is written (usually with government decisions), debated, approved, implemented and evaluated (although policy evaluation is not covered here in detail). Baumgartner and Jones's idea of ‘punctuated equilibrium’, imported from evolutionary biology, attempts to understand how groups of actors influence policy priorities; the idea postulates episodic periods of rapid policy evolution. John Kingdon's multiple streams approach (MSA) is concerned with understanding how issues materialize, how they get the attention of policy‐makers, how they are framed as ideas in policy agendas, and why ideas ‘have their time’. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) literature offers a viable alternative by offering no beginning and end to what is seen as a continuous and quintessentially competitive policy process. In most countries and regions of the world, FRM policy is closely related to the flood risk likely to be found there. Case studies are presented from the UK, South Africa, Tanzania and Bangladesh. The policy process challenges as outlined in these four cases are critiqued, but offer some practical lessons supporting the design of better processes and better FRM policy and policy outcomes in the future.
Policy Processes in Flood Risk Management
Dadson, Simon J. (editor) / Garrick, Dustin E. (editor) / Penning‐Rowsell, Edmund C. (editor) / Hall, Jim W. (editor) / Hope, Rob (editor) / Hughes, Jocelyne (editor) / Penning‐Rowsell, Edmund C. (author) / Pardoe, Joanna (author) / Hall, Jim W. (author) / Self, Julie (author)
Water Science, Policy, and Management ; 197-214
2019-11-07
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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