Harries, Tim and Penning-Rowsell, Edmund (2011) Victim pressure, institutional inertia and climate change adaptation: the case of flood risk. Global Environmental Change Part A, 21(1), pp. 188-197. ISSN (print) 0959-3780

Abstract

Interviews were conducted with risk managers in a case-study area in England to determine the factors influencing the choice between more traditional, engineering based, adaptation to flood risk and those focussing on vulnerability reduction. The findings of in-depth analysis of these interviews have implications for climate change adaptation as a whole. They suggest that government policies to implement a broader range of adaptation measures might be hampered by institutional cultures formed when engineered approaches were the norm. Political decentralisation and the fashion for public consultation exacerbate this effect, leaving decision-makers more responsive to the influence of those directly affected by natural hazards than they are to policy pronouncements by government.

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Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.002
Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This workwas supported by the Economic and Social Research Council; King's College London; the European Commission and the European Union [grant number: ERAC-CT-2004-515742].
Uncontrolled Keywords:	institutional inertia; climate change; flooding; victim pressure; flood protection; flood; flood policy
Research Area:	Research Areas > Geography and environmental studies Research Areas > Sociology
Faculty, School or Research Centre:	Faculty of Business and Law (until 2017) > Kingston Business School (Strategy, Marketing and Entrepreneurship) (until July 2013) Faculty of Business and Law (until 2017)
Related URLs:	Organisation
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2011 13:29
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2022 16:18
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.002
URI:	https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/18065

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