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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 326-334Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.013
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Flood risk management; Social learning; Governance; Stakeholder participation; Regional scale
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- University of Exeter SISS Discretionary Fund
- ESRC Impact Accelerator Fund
- Leverhulme Trust [IN-2014-014]
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Stakeholder participation in environmental management has become widespread globally while the normative benefits of multi-stakeholder processes in governing natural resources are promoted by academics and policy makers. As projections indicate more frequent and intense flood events with future climate change, this article examines one stakeholder participation process within UK flood risk management to evaluate whether it contributes to enhancing effective engagement, through social learning. Evidence is derived from multiple interviews conducted within the England's Regional Flood and Coastal Committees (RFCCs), which were specifically introduced to better integrate local level interests in regional flood defence decision-making. In testing a modified 'individual-community interaction' learning framework, it is apparent that personal and group learning outcomes were evident to varying degrees, suggesting that stakeholder participation was relatively successful. Flowever, our analysis suggests that flexibility exists within such structures, allowing reflexive reconstitution to further increase social learning. Recommendations for future stakeholder participation are proposed, providing lessons for both UK flood governance and similar flood risk management processes in other countries. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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