Resilient Cities and Homeowners Action: Governing for Flood Resilience Through Homeowner Contributions
The chapter focuses on the role of homeowners in reaching the goal of urban resilience from a governance perspective. It explores the effects of this shift towards increased homeowner contributions on distributions of responsibilities. Based on literature, it discusses how homeowners can contribute to flood resilience, and what are the technical, economic, legal and social rationales to do so. Then some of the challenges and dilemmas that arise when considering the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of increasing the role of homeowners in flood risk governance are unpacked. Tying together the rationales for increased homeowner contributions and the challenges and dilemmas that it generates, ‘Resilient cities and homeowners action’ concludes with an outlook on the technical, economic, legal and social conditions and triggers within flood risk governance that might encourage increased homeowners involvement in flood risk management.
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| Format: | Part of book or chapter of book biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
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| Subjects: | Life Science, |
| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/resilient-cities-and-homeowners-action-governing-for-flood-resili |
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| Summary: | The chapter focuses on the role of homeowners in reaching the goal of urban resilience from a governance perspective. It explores the effects of this shift towards increased homeowner contributions on distributions of responsibilities. Based on literature, it discusses how homeowners can contribute to flood resilience, and what are the technical, economic, legal and social rationales to do so. Then some of the challenges and dilemmas that arise when considering the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of increasing the role of homeowners in flood risk governance are unpacked. Tying together the rationales for increased homeowner contributions and the challenges and dilemmas that it generates, ‘Resilient cities and homeowners action’ concludes with an outlook on the technical, economic, legal and social conditions and triggers within flood risk governance that might encourage increased homeowners involvement in flood risk management. |
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