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Adaptation pathways and path dependencies: Insights into past and future decision-making in flood risk management

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Abstract
Recent extreme flood events show that the challenges posed by climate-related risks demand well-informed and -prepared local planning and governance. Consequently, the main political and academic discourse revolves around developing approaches that make society more resilient against potential future events not just by introducing smart technical solutions, but also by improving and strengthening local decision-making processes. Nonetheless, flood risk management decisions and their impacts are typically developed as a response to a singular past flood event, often overlooking the locally specific social and economic framework-conditions. Hence, alternative management options are often not considered within the decision-making process, although the decision might have long-term impacts. The paper analyzes the long-term development and impacts of decision-making arenas in which local adaptation policy evolves and assesses the impacts on flood risk management. These arenas are characterized by (1) competing interests from various policy areas, (2) ad-hoc decisions often taking precedence over strategic planning for long-term climate risk management, and (3) previous decisions providing carry-over, follow-up or even creating lock-in effects for later decisions. We propose a novel approach that brings together the broad range of knowledge about path dependencies with ongoing scholarly debates on adaptation pathways in flood risk management. This enables us to combine backwards- with forward-looking perspectives and, thus, both analyze past and support (possible) future decision-making. Our case studies are located in two Austrian climate change adaptation regions. There, we identify intersecting pathways of how hazards and socio-economic conditions developed over time and identify crucial points in time in which major decisions were made. This allows us to trace past pathways that lead to particular constellations and situations in which a specific pathway is chosen over other alternatives. We argue that learning from these past experiences lays the foundation for the development of socioeconomically and politically feasible flood risk management pathways for the future.
Title
Adaptation pathways and path dependencies: Insights into past and future decision-making in flood risk management
Author
Clar, Christoph
Hanger-Kopp, Susanne
Schinko, Thomas
Seebauer, Sebastian
Thaler, Thomas
Date of issue
2021
Access level
Open access
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Full or partial reprint or use of the papers is encouraged, subject to due acknowledgement of the authors and its publication in these proceedings. The copyright of the research resides with the authors of the paper, with the FLOODrisk consortium.
Conference title
FLOODrisk 2020 - 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management
Conference place
Online
Conference date
2021.06.22-2021.06.24
Language
en
Subject
adaptation pathways, path dependency, local decision making
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DOI: 10.3311/FloodRisk2020.25.6
Title of the container document
Science and practice for an uncertain future
Document type
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Document genre
Konferenciacikk

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