Print Email Facebook Twitter Experts and expertise in the governance of infrastructures: Flood-risk management as an example Title Experts and expertise in the governance of infrastructures: Flood-risk management as an example Author Broekhans, B. Ruijgh-Van der Ploeg, M.P.M. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2012-12-31 Abstract The current focus on risk-based approaches to the governance of technology poses new challenges to the combined effort of policymakers and experts since the current worlds of technology and governance are very different. We make use of two hegemonic perspectives in these worlds, i.e. the systems and the network perspective, to analyse the expected contributions from expertise and experts to policy-making about infrastructures. The first question we address is how these two perspectives shape the expectations of the contribution of experts and expertise to problemsolving and policy-making. Second, we explore how practitioners may deal with inevitable conflicting expectations. Based on documents and previous research and illustrated with examples of flood-defence projects from the Netherlands, this paper concludes that perspectives may be coupled or uncoupled in practices of collaboration, and that practitioners should reconsider the contingent room to manoeuvre in policy-making, and the role they may take. Subject systems perspective; network perspective; expertise; experts; flood-risk management To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f7061301-6f16-4a69-89a7-2231870a5d50 Publisher Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance ISSN 1736-6089 Source Halduskultuur - Administrative Cultuur, 13(1)2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 Broekhans, B., Ruijgh-Van der Ploeg, M.P.M. Files PDF 66-277-1-PB1.pdf 798.27 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f7061301-6f16-4a69-89a7-2231870a5d50/datastream/OBJ/view