Print Email Facebook Twitter Taming global flood disasters: lessons learned from Dutch experience Title Taming global flood disasters: lessons learned from Dutch experience Author Zevenbergen, C. Van Herk, S. Rijke, J.S. Kabat, P. Bloemen, P. Ashley, R. Speers, A. Gersonius, B. Veenbeek, W. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-12-31 Abstract There is a growing international recognition that flood risk management in optima forma should be a programmed and flexible process of continuously improving management practices by active learning about the outcome of earlier and ongoing interventions and drivers of change. In the Netherlands, such a long-term, adaptive flood risk management strategy is now being implemented. This so-called second Delta Programme aims to identify and exploit opportunities and capitalize on short-term benefits and opportunistic synergies that arise from change and will require adaptive policymaking. It also requires the financial and institutional means to operate in a long-lasting way, which at the very least, means engaging stakeholders, gathering and disseminating results and adaptation of future plans. Transferring the Dutch approach to other countries is a major challenge that calls for fundamental changes in institutional arrangements at various levels and thus requires customized programmes for strategic institutional change. Recent examples of transfer will provide important lessons of how institutional change can successfully occur and will contribute insights for other countries that attempting to reform their flood risk management strategies. Continuous monitoring and evaluation and sharing international experiences will become crucial for the effective delivery and wider uptake of these new strategies around the globe. Subject flood disastersadaptive delta managementmulti level governance To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e37e5307-5de8-4cb4-9bbb-3e8d779f8d1b DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-012-0439-3 Publisher Springer-Verlag ISSN 0921-030X Source Natural Hazards, 65(3)2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 The Authors and Springer Files PDF 285232.pdf 364.71 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e37e5307-5de8-4cb4-9bbb-3e8d779f8d1b/datastream/OBJ/view