TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative spatial planning in the face of flood risk in delta cities
T2 - A policy framing perspective
AU - Meng, Meng
AU - Dąbrowski, Marcin
AU - Tai, Yuting
AU - Stead, Dominic
AU - Chan, Faith
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Integration of flood risk in spatial planning is increasingly seen as a way to enhance cities’ resilience to the growing flood hazards, albeit its operationalisation remains challenging. This study aims to explain the reasons for this difficulty through the case study of Guangzhou, a Chinese delta city that is highly vulnerable to coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding, particularly in the context of a changing climate and rapid expansion of the urban fabric. It does so by investigating the recognition of flood risk in spatial planning and vice-versa, of spatial issues in the flood risk management field, using framing analysis. The paper reveals that the integration of flood risk concerns in spatial planning in Guangzhou remains an emerging process, gradually shifting from informal to formal activities grounded in legislation. This happens through percolation of framing discourse from the flood risk management policy to spatial planning, leading to changes in problem setting, action scripts and the prescribed governance arrangements in the planning discourse. The vagueness of governance arrangements, however, undermines the integration of flood risk management in spatial planning.
AB - Integration of flood risk in spatial planning is increasingly seen as a way to enhance cities’ resilience to the growing flood hazards, albeit its operationalisation remains challenging. This study aims to explain the reasons for this difficulty through the case study of Guangzhou, a Chinese delta city that is highly vulnerable to coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding, particularly in the context of a changing climate and rapid expansion of the urban fabric. It does so by investigating the recognition of flood risk in spatial planning and vice-versa, of spatial issues in the flood risk management field, using framing analysis. The paper reveals that the integration of flood risk concerns in spatial planning in Guangzhou remains an emerging process, gradually shifting from informal to formal activities grounded in legislation. This happens through percolation of framing discourse from the flood risk management policy to spatial planning, leading to changes in problem setting, action scripts and the prescribed governance arrangements in the planning discourse. The vagueness of governance arrangements, however, undermines the integration of flood risk management in spatial planning.
KW - Boundary spanning
KW - Climate change
KW - Delta cities
KW - Flood risk
KW - Framing analysis
KW - Spatial planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063030619&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.006
DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85063030619
SN - 1462-9011
VL - 96
SP - 95
EP - 104
JO - Environmental Science and Policy
JF - Environmental Science and Policy
ER -