dc.contributor.author
Menzel, Susanne
dc.contributor.author
Seidl, Irmi
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T07:45:20Z
dc.date.available
2010-11-11
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18645
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-22335
dc.description.abstract
Based on the suggestion in the literature that conservation objectives should
be linked with local development objectives to successfully realise community-
based conservation, and little available knowledge about corresponding
projects, we set off to deepen our comprehension about how these projects work
in the field. We investigate cases that were from the outset framed as having
two objectives; these cases are combined projects of flood prevention and
river restoration in Switzerland. Our aim was to better understand the role of
the multi-level governance setting for the success of these projects The
corresponding objective was to identify, what role legal regulations,
administrative conditions, available financial resources and other factors
from different levels (confederation, canton and municipalities) play for the
realisation of these projects. We investigated these projects by conducting
personal interviews with project leaders and stakeholders that participated in
five collaborative planning processes; for each case we interviewed at least
five participants. We find that the difficulty to ‘gain space for the river’
was the main stumbling block for the planning and implementation of these
multipurpose projects. Federal and cantonal regulations and requirements
clearly shaped these projects and the corresponding institutions exercised the
possible control based upon financial resources. Existing regulations turned
out to be flexible instruments and adaptable, when they had been hindering
emerging and desirable practices in river engineering. These regulations also
permitted considerable autonomy to the local actors to arrange and negotiate
their concerns in the projects. This autonomy made it possible to harness the
‘local social ingredients’ we identified as crucial to make these projects
work, which are convincing actors that make a case for conservation issues,
existing trust within the community –more specifically— to have good reasons
to trust that nobody would be disadvantaged clearly more than other, and the
willingness of local actors to invest patience and time to avoid conflict and
to work on agreeable solutions.
de
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000089-6
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http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject
collaborative NRM
dc.subject
stakeholder participation
dc.subject
qualitative investigation
dc.subject
multi-purpose governance/management
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multi-level governance
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300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
Conditions for the successful combination of flood prevention and river
restoration
dc.type
Konferenzveröffentlichung
dc.description.edition
Draft
dc.title.subtitle
extract from five examples in Switzerland
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
de
refubium.affiliation.other
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft / Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik (FFU)
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FUDOCS_document_000000007031
refubium.note.author
C5: Preparing for Natural Hazards
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no
refubium.series.name
Berlin Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000001402
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open access