Abstract
City governments have access to a range of policy instruments to reduce flood risk, but choosing among these tools is challenging. This article identifies fourteen different policy instruments that could contribute to urban flood risk reduction and draws on interviews with expert stakeholders to score these instruments across eight evaluation criteria. The results indicate which policy tools the interviewees consider to be most and least suitable and illuminate the trade-offs inherent in instrument selection. Complementary relationships between the various instruments are also considered in the context of instrument mixes–combinations of multiple policy tools designed to maximise urban flood risk reduction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 101-113 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Local Environment |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) under grant number 1-02-02-032.1; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under grant number 435-2018-0377. The authors thank the Editor and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and thank the interviewees for sharing their time and expertise for this study.
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Keywords
- Cities
- flood
- policy instruments
- risk reduction
- urban flooding