L9: Local and community-based water management Flashcards
What are the governance principles of the UK?
Encouraging investment: (additional investment for assets; not simply ‘assume that the costs of flood risk management will be met centrally’).
Enabling local choice, encouraging innovative options with involvement of civil society (stakeholders with ‘an interest’ have bigger say in return for contributions; local communities invest in flood risk management measures.
Limited national funding for individual projects, prioritising action for those most at risk and least able to protect or insure themselves (projects only offered funding based on the benefits they achieve; developers ‘make a full contribution’).
How is flood risk zoning done in the UK?
You have a zone that shows what the flood risk is in combination with how sensitive the land use is. Based on this matrix, development is possible or not. Permits do or do not get given based on this.
What phases does the disaster cycle have?
Mitigation: Reducing the adverse impact of potential flooding
Preparedness: Building capacities in order to have an effective response to potential flooding
Response: Minimising the consequences of actual flooding
Recovery: Returning the areas affected by actual flooding back to normal
Name examples of pre flood measures
Civil society actors: Flood Wardens, Local Flood Groups
Mitigation: Arranging floodable area; temporary barriers
Preparedness: Flood risk communication, creating and stocking flood stores; door-knocking with warnings
Name examples of ‘during-flood’ measures
Civil society actors: Flood Wardens, Local Flood Groups
Robustness: Monitoring, reinforcing and adding temporary barriers
Response: Accessing flood stores, Reducing losses
Name measures of post flood
Immediate recovery: cleaning / clearing out affected properties, relief items from flood stores, supporting emergency centres
Name characteristics of water privatization
- failing to achieve development objectives
- no extension to poor households
- low levels of private investment, price hikes
- ‘retreat’ of water multinationals (e.g., Veolia, Suez)
Name characteristics of Private-sector provision
- full ownership
- management (private operation for fee, 4-7 yrs)
- lease (assets leased 10-15 yrs)
- mixed ownership (private minority share/ownership)
- concession (private operation and investment 20-30 yrs)
Explain differences between the commons and water democracy according to Bakker (2008)
Community based water management is often far more comprehensive than water cooperatives, which tend to be focused on the ownership and management of a single water provider.
