Froehlich, Jule (2023) "Better together" – Co-production for resilient and legitimate Flood Risk Governance: A Bremen Case Study. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The growing flood risk due to climate change and growing urbanisation increasingly threatens social communities, rendering flooding more and more of a societal issue. In order to build flood resilience, academia and policy assign increasing importance to the role of civil society and deem their active involvement essential for managing future floods. However, co-production in Flood Risk Governance (FRG) is still understudied in the literature and rare in practice. It is hampered by various barriers with questions being raised about its legitimacy. This thesis adds to the understanding of co-production for resilient and legitimate FRG by conducting a qualitative single case study research. A theoretical framework is developed synthesising the concepts of FRG, flood resilience, co-production and legitimacy. This framework is used to analyse the co-production of flood risk measures and the emergence of Germany’s first storm surge partnership in the Pauliner Marsch and Im Suhrfelde (PM and IS) in Bremen. It is shown how the co-production of diverse flood risk measures in the case study area have enhanced the dimensions of adaptability and transformability of flood resilience while ensuring legitimacy. The conclusion is drawn that flood resilience and legitimacy go somewhat hand in hand in co-produced forms of FRG. Based on general lessons learned from the case study, recommendations for German authorities to promote co-production for resilient and legitimate FRG are formulated.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Brink, M.A. van den and Restemeyer, B. |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2023 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2023 09:30 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4419 |
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