Print Email Facebook Twitter Distributing responsibilities for safety from flooding Title Distributing responsibilities for safety from flooding Author Doorn, N. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Date 2016 Abstract In today's society, safety from flooding is no longer the sole responsibility of the central government. In recent decades, we have witnessed a governance turn in flood risk management, in which private parties as well as regional and local governmental bodies have a role to play. As a result, the question of how to distribute the responsibilities among the actors involved has become urgent. We often want distribution to be efficient and effective as well as fair. This paper presents a preliminary review of the literature on responsibility in flood risk management. The results suggests that it is important that fairness is taken into account when distributing responsibility in flood risk management. Not only does the distribution of responsibility impact how the risks and burdens themselves are distributed, allocating responsibility to individual citizens without considering the perceived fairness of the responsibility ascription may have a negative influence on the legitimacy of flood risk arrangements and lead to resistance among individual citizens to take action. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:574efe07-faa3-4151-b38b-f8818cc0c527 DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160724002 Source E3S Web of Conferences, 7 Event 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management, FLOODrisk 2016, 2016-10-17 → 2016-10-21, Lyon Convention Centre, Lyon, France Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 N. Doorn Files PDF e3sconf_flood2016_24002.pdf 175.61 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:574efe07-faa3-4151-b38b-f8818cc0c527/datastream/OBJ/view