Integrated Flood Risk Management in Mountain Areas: Assessing Sectoral Interdependencies, Conflicts and Options for Policy Coordination
Abstract
The project PoCo-FLOOD investigates the issue of policy coordination, which arises from the on-going paradigmatic shift in flood policies from flood defense to integrated flood risk management (IFRM). Specifically, the project explores interdependencies, conflicts and options for policy coordination between the sectors flood protection, hydropower (energy), agriculture and spatial planning. As these sectors play a fundamental role concerning both flood hazard prevention and flood risk mitigation in mountain areas, PoCo-FLOOD investigates the challenges and opportunities of policy coordination for these particular fields of interaction in three in-depth case studies. The first case, (“Flood Retention in the Headwaters”) focuses on hydropower dams in alpine catchments and the possibilities/limitations of coordinated policies to attenuate peak floods. The second case (“Flood Storage on Agricultural Land”) focuses on the growing need to provide agricultural areas for temporary flood storage and the possibilities/limitations of coordinated policies to provide upstream flood retention services for downstream beneficiaries. The third case (“Flood Protection and Land Development”) analyses the reciprocal relation between flood protection schemes and spatial planning policies and the possibilities/limitations of coordinated policies to mitigate the increase in damage potential in flood-protected areas. Through the in-depth analysis of the three fields of interaction PoCo-FLOOD pursues the following objectives: (i) to improve the understanding of the sectoral interrelations, which arise from the shift towards IFRM; (ii) to broaden the knowledge and evidence base concerning the limitations and the conflicts of interest of enhancing policy coherence in IFRM, and (iii) to co-develop together with stakeholders and policy representatives options for coordinated flood policies. The project addresses these objectives through a combined research approach based on interdisciplinary research and stakeholder engagement (transdisciplinarity). The research team brings together five scientific disciplines of strong relevance for the proposed research topic (spatial planning and land rearrangement, hydrology and water management, agriculture, river morphology, and political science). Through a series of stakeholder workshops the project combines knowledge from various user domains with the aim of supporting policy-making and addresses the growing need for better integration of science and decision-making.
Policy coordination Flood risk management Alpine spatial planning Catchment based flood management Historical fluvial morphology
Publikationen
Flood risk management in mountain regions: a policy coordination perspective
Autoren: Löschner, L; Herrnegger, M; Hohensinner, S; Niedermayr, J; Nordbeck, R; Seher, W; Wagner, K; Wesemann, J Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Cooperation in flood risk management: understanding the role of strategic planning in two Austrian policy instruments
Autoren: Thaler, T; Nordbeck, R; Loschner, L; Seher, W Jahr: 2020
Journal articles
Hochwasserexposition von alpinen Siedlungsgebieten im historischen Vergleich
Autoren: Junger, L; Seher, W; Jahr: 2021
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Koordination von Raumplanung und Wasserbau als wesentlicher Bestandteil des Hochwasserrisikomanagements
Autoren: Seher, W; Neuhold, C Jahr: 2022
Journal articles
Wasser in Gebirgsräumen – Disaster Risk Management: Transdisziplinäre Studien aus Österreich. – Abhandlungen der GeoSphere Austria
Autoren: Elster, D. (Hrsg.), Helfricht, K. (Hrsg.), Seher, W. (Hrsg.) Jahr: 2023
Editorial
Integriertes Hochwasserrisikomanagement in Berggebieten: sektorale Interdependenzen, Konflikte und Möglichkeiten der Politikkoordination (PoCo-FLOOD)
Autoren: Seher, W., Grüneis, H., Niedermayr, J., Schroll, K., Wagner, K., Hohensinner, S., Herrnegger, M., Stecher, G., Lebiedzinski, K., Junger, L., Löschner, L., Nordbeck, R. Jahr: 2023
Chapter in collected volumes
Project staff
Walter Seher
Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Walter Seher
walter.seher@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85510
Project Leader
01.04.2019 - 31.01.2023
Mathew Herrnegger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Mathew Herrnegger
mathew.herrnegger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81618
Sub Projectleader
01.04.2019 - 31.01.2023
Severin Hohensinner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Severin Hohensinner
severin.hohensinner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81203
Sub Projectleader
01.04.2019 - 31.01.2023
Ralf Nordbeck
Dr. Ralf Nordbeck
ralf.nordbeck@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73225
Sub Projectleader
01.04.2019 - 31.01.2023
Lena Junger
Dipl.-Ing. Lena Junger
lena.junger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85513
Project Staff
07.01.2020 - 31.01.2023
BOKU partners
External partners
Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft und Bergbauernfragen
Klaus Wagner
partner