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Title: | An interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the unintended consequences of structural flood protection |
Author: | Di Baldassarre, Giuliano Kreibich, Heidi Vorogushyn, Sergiy Aerts, Jeroen Arnbjerg-Nielsen, Karsten Barendrecht, Marlies Bates, Paul Borga, Marco Botzen, W. J. Wouter Bubeck, Philip De Marchi, Bruna Llasat-Botija, Montserrat Mazzoleni, Maurizio Molinari, Daniela Mondino, Elena Mård, Johanna Petrucci, Olga Scolobig, Anna Viglione, Alberto Ward, Philip J. |
Keywords: | Control d'inundacions Flood control |
Issue Date: | 30-Oct-2018 |
Publisher: | European Geosciences Union (EGU) |
Abstract: | One common approach to cope with floods is the implementation of structural flood protection measures, such as levees or flood-control reservoirs, which substantially reduce the probability of flooding at the time of implementation. Numerous scholars have problematized this approach. They have shown that increasing the levels of flood protection can attract more settlements and high-value assets in the areas protected by the new measures. Other studies have explored how structural measures can generate a sense of complacency, which can act to reduce preparedness. These paradoxical risk changes have been described as levee effect, safe development paradox or safety dilemma. In this commentary, we briefly review this phenomenon by critically analysing the intended benefits and unintended effects of structural flood protection, and then we propose an interdisciplinary research agenda to uncover these paradoxical dynamics of risk |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5629-2018 |
It is part of: | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018, vol. 22, num. 11, p. 5629-5637 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/129875 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5629-2018 |
ISSN: | 1027-5606 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física Aplicada) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Recerca de l'Aigua (IdRA)) |
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