TY - JOUR
T1 - No longer "bullying the Rhine"
T2 - Giving narrative a place in flood management
AU - Baake, Ken
AU - Kaempf, Charlotte
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - In this paper we explore whether today multiple sources of reasoning are being considered in the discourse of flood management. We examine whether stakeholders are considered and served as an audience of partners in managing rivers. To this end, we reviewed sources of reasoning that people living in river basins use for handling floods and mitigating flood risk. We focus on texts dealing with lowland flooding, taking as an example the Rhine River in historical times and in the present. Our review of river management documentation revealed that the scheme that guides engineers', policy makers', and administrators' actions toward rivers is shifting from correcting rivers toward accommodating their needs for flood plains - while still controlling the rivers. In current European river management reports we found elements of narrative side by side with formal scientific fact reporting.
AB - In this paper we explore whether today multiple sources of reasoning are being considered in the discourse of flood management. We examine whether stakeholders are considered and served as an audience of partners in managing rivers. To this end, we reviewed sources of reasoning that people living in river basins use for handling floods and mitigating flood risk. We focus on texts dealing with lowland flooding, taking as an example the Rhine River in historical times and in the present. Our review of river management documentation revealed that the scheme that guides engineers', policy makers', and administrators' actions toward rivers is shifting from correcting rivers toward accommodating their needs for flood plains - while still controlling the rivers. In current European river management reports we found elements of narrative side by side with formal scientific fact reporting.
KW - Cross-Sectoral Discourse
KW - Flood-Resilience
KW - Local Stories
KW - Narrative Rationality
KW - River Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857278847&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17524032.2011.610807
DO - 10.1080/17524032.2011.610807
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84857278847
SN - 1752-4032
VL - 5
SP - 428
EP - 446
JO - Environmental Communication
JF - Environmental Communication
IS - 4
ER -