Pilot Sites - Dordrecht
To deal with increasing flood risk and increasing uncertainty, there is a growing call for integrated flood risk management and climate proofing. However, the actual delivery of an integrated approach and subsequently its mainstreaming faces many barriers and is in its infancy. The EU Floods Directive shyly embraces the integrated approach, but is yet to be implemented at national level. The EU white paper 'Adapting to Climate Change' sets outs a framework to improve EU's resiliency, but is yet to be brought to practice.
The Dutch government recently started pilot projects to test its Multi Level Safety (MLS) approach; for integrated strategies combining 3 safety layers: prevention, spatial planning and crisis management. Key barriers to define and implement truly integrating, long term strategies point towards persistent problems for which participative strategies deem paramount. This paper proposes and evaluates a design for a participative decision making process for an official Dutch pilot project for several key policy processes: Multi Level Safety, the Dutch implementation of the Floods Directive and first experiences with a climate proofing framework. The pilot area is the island of Dordrecht, an exemplary case study to draw lessons from for the Netherlands and other deltaic regions.
The main aspects of relevance to the FloodProBE work programme are:
This paper proposes and evaluates a design for a participative decision making process for an official Dutch pilot project for several key policy processes: Multi Level Safety, the Dutch implementation of the Floods Directive and first experiences with a climate proofing framework.
