Spatial imaginaries in flood risk management: insights from a managed retreat initiative in upper Bavaria
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Spatial imaginaries in flood risk management: insights from a managed retreat initiative in upper Bavaria. / Walsh, Cormac; Lennon, Mick; Scott, Mark et al.
In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 66, No. 13, 01.10.2023, p. 2668-2690.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Spatial imaginaries in flood risk management: insights from a managed retreat initiative in upper Bavaria
AU - Walsh, Cormac
AU - Lennon, Mick
AU - Scott, Mark
AU - Tubridy, Fiadh
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Irish Center for Applied Geosciences (iCRAG) under Science Foundation Ireland Grant 13/RC2092. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Newcastle University.
PY - 2023/10/1
Y1 - 2023/10/1
N2 - Recent decades have witnessed a shift to spatial perspectives in flood risk management. It is recognized that flood protection has substantial implications for land-use plans and requires attention to the functional geographies of river basins, catchments and floodplains. It is against this background that managed retreat is increasingly identified as a viable cost-effective response to flood risk. Yet managed retreat is also a political act, involving the displacement of coastal and riverine communities. In this paper, we examine the spatial imaginaries underlying managed retreat and flood risk management through an in-depth case study of a displaced village on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The paper provides insights into the challenges posed by diverging functional, administrative and political spatial imaginaries and how this divergence contributes to perceptions of injustice. We suggest that a shift to a more relational form of communicative planning may help to address this dilemma.
AB - Recent decades have witnessed a shift to spatial perspectives in flood risk management. It is recognized that flood protection has substantial implications for land-use plans and requires attention to the functional geographies of river basins, catchments and floodplains. It is against this background that managed retreat is increasingly identified as a viable cost-effective response to flood risk. Yet managed retreat is also a political act, involving the displacement of coastal and riverine communities. In this paper, we examine the spatial imaginaries underlying managed retreat and flood risk management through an in-depth case study of a displaced village on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The paper provides insights into the challenges posed by diverging functional, administrative and political spatial imaginaries and how this divergence contributes to perceptions of injustice. We suggest that a shift to a more relational form of communicative planning may help to address this dilemma.
KW - displacement
KW - flood risk management
KW - managed retreat
KW - spatial imaginaries
KW - spatial justice
KW - Environmental Governance
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U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2022.2082927
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2022.2082927
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85132703098
VL - 66
SP - 2668
EP - 2690
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
SN - 0964-0568
IS - 13
ER -