Researchers from University College Copenhagen Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Climate Change (Water Under the Bridge: How Place Meanings Shape Second Homeowners’ Engagement In Flood Risk Management In Southern Denmark): Climate Change

2023 DEC 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Climate Change. According to news originating from Copenhagen, Denmark, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In Europe, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme precipitation events. Consequently, low-lying areas in southern Denmark may experience increased flooding.”

Financial supporters for this research include NordForsk, Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries (CliCNord), NordForsk Nordic Societal Security Programme.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University College Copenhagen, “In this predominantly rural landscape, large areas of wetland were initially reclaimed for agricultural purposes, before being developed into recreational areas for second homes, many of which are now vulnerable to flooding. Local and national policy on flood risk management and climate change adaptation is based on the assumption that effective adaptation actions require citizen engagement. However, local authorities’ efforts to motivate homeowners to engage in collective actions have had mixed results. We adopt a case study approach, and explore how second homeowners’ place meanings shape, and are shaped by, how they experienced a climate-related hazard, and how this, in turn, informs their motivation to engage in collective flood risk management efforts. Specifically, in-depth narrative interviews were conducted with second homeowners who experienced an extreme weather event in 2011, which led to severe flooding. The findings show that place meanings can vary within the same stakeholder group, in this case, second homeowners.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “However, both second homeowners whose place meanings can be likened to that of a ‘temporary visitor’, and those whose place meanings are more akin to that of the ‘permanent resident’ are able to mobilise their place meanings to contest engagement in local authorities’ flood risk reduction initiatives.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Water Under the Bridge: How Place Meanings Shape Second Homeowners’ Engagement In Flood Risk Management In Southern Denmark. Regional Environmental Change, 2023;23(4). Regional Environmental Change can be contacted at: Springer Heidelberg, Tiergartenstrasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany. (Springer - www.springer.com; Regional Environmental Change - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1436-3798/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Mikkel Nedergaard, University College Copenhagen, Fac Social Educ Social Work & Adm, Dept. of Management and Administration, Emergency & Risk Management, Sigurdsgade 26, Dk-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02156-6. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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