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Resilient Cities and Homeowners Action: Governing for Flood Resilience Through Homeowner Contributions

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Homeowners and the Resilient City

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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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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Barbara Tempels

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  1. Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Thaler

  2. Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

    Thomas Hartmann

  3. JEP University Usti and Labem, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

    Lenka Slavíková

  4. Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Barbara Tempels

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Tempels, B. (2022). Resilient Cities and Homeowners Action: Governing for Flood Resilience Through Homeowner Contributions. In: Thaler, T., Hartmann, T., Slavíková, L., Tempels, B. (eds) Homeowners and the Resilient City. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17763-7_2

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