Integrated Planning, Coordination and Collaboration

Abstract

This chapter describes common challenges and good practices on integrated planning, coordination and collaboration. They can be seen as ‘bridging mechanisms’ that combat fragmentation and create synergies by linking strategies and (groups of) actors in a joint, integrated effort to reduce flood risk.

The implementation of the Floods Directive is both a challenge and an opportunity. In Poland the Floods Directive provided an opportunity to rethink and reshape flood risk management. Integrated planning for the future also takes place for other reasons than the implementation of the Floods Directive. In Sweden, climate adaptation triggers such planning; in France, integrated Action Plans for Flood Prevention are developed by local authorities; and in the Netherlands, Belgium and England examples of integrated and adaptive plans that take account of (future) uncertainties are developed. Other common challenges have to do with collaboration in river basins, between upstream and downstream stakeholders, and multilevel collaboration, between local, regional and national authorities. The River Contracts Wallonia are a good example of the first; the cooperation between amongst others the municipality, water board and state in the Dutch city of Dordrecht is a good example of the latter.

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