Researchers from University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Boku Vienna Describe Findings in Risk Management (Conflicting and Complementary Policy Goals As Sectoral Integration Challenge: an Analysis of Sectoral Interplay In Flood Risk …): Risk Management

2023 JUN 01 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on Risk Management are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Vienna, Austria, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The paradigmatic shift from traditional flood defense toward integrated flood risk management has widened the sectors and policies affected and has spurred a growing interest of scholars to understand cross-sectoral flood policy integration. In this paper we argue that the cross-sectoral goal relationship-ranging from complementary to conflictual policy goals-is a useful conceptual framework to understand (1) the policy integration challenge at hands and (2) in particular the unfolding policy integration from a processual perspective.”

Financial supporters for this research include Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Boku Vienna, “For our empirical analysis we identify three policy subsystems that are highly important for sectoral interplay in flood risk management: agriculture, hydropower generation, and spatial planning. Using Austria as a case study we illustrate the goal relationships and sectoral policy integration challenges in each of these fields of interaction. Based on 45 expert interviews in the selected policy sectors we provide useful insights into the current processes of flood policy integration. The empirical findings from our case studies show that sectoral goal relationships and the nature of the policy integration challenge drive flood policy integration. More pronounced land use conflicts are more strongly reflected in different actor interests, policy frames, policy goals, and the choice of policy instruments. Sectoral goal relationships are an important factor to explain the unfolding policy integration process. Complementary policy goals result in rather informal, harmonious integrative negotiations on strengthening synergies by using soft policy instruments.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “On the contrary, conflictual policy goals lead to more formal negotiations among the affected sectors relying on hard, regulative instruments.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Conflicting and Complementary Policy Goals As Sectoral Integration Challenge: an Analysis of Sectoral Interplay In Flood Risk Management. Policy Sciences, 2023. Policy Sciences can be contacted at: Springer, Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 Gz Dordrecht, Netherlands. (Springer - www.springer.com; Policy Sciences - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0032-2687/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Ralf Nordbeck, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Boku Vienna, Inst Forest Environm & Nat Resource Policy, Dept. of Economics and Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria. Additional authors for this research include Walter Seher, Lena Junger, Heidelinde Grueneis and Mathew Herrnegger.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-023-09503-8. 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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