The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany
The climate change factor (CCF) is a precautionary instrument for technical flood protection that was introduced in Southern Germany in the early 2000s. The CCF was designed as a surcharge value to be added to all new technical flood protection facilities, such as dams, protection walls, and retenti...
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| description | The climate change factor (CCF) is a precautionary instrument for technical flood protection that was introduced in Southern Germany in the early 2000s. The CCF was designed as a surcharge value to be added to all new technical flood protection facilities, such as dams, protection walls, and retention areas. This paper deconstructs the conditions and processes that led to the creation of this new policy instrument. Following the instrument choice framework, the paper analyzes in a heuristic manner, the institutions, actors, discourses, and decision context that were part of this process from the early 1990s to 2004, when the instrument was introduced. In order to better understand the scope of this regional instrument, the paper also briefly depicts four non-representative cases of flood risk and protection management, where the instrument was either applied or avoided. The article closes with an assessment of the CCF, concluding that the innovativeness of this instrument faded once the overarching sectoral paradigm shifted from technical flood protection to more comprehensive flood risk management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eeb7ea996e5e446c9da166f05a4017042023-11-19T20:58:38ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412020-04-01124105010.3390/w12041050The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern GermanyMelani Pelaez Jara0Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, 79085 Freiburg, GermanyThe climate change factor (CCF) is a precautionary instrument for technical flood protection that was introduced in Southern Germany in the early 2000s. The CCF was designed as a surcharge value to be added to all new technical flood protection facilities, such as dams, protection walls, and retention areas. This paper deconstructs the conditions and processes that led to the creation of this new policy instrument. Following the instrument choice framework, the paper analyzes in a heuristic manner, the institutions, actors, discourses, and decision context that were part of this process from the early 1990s to 2004, when the instrument was introduced. In order to better understand the scope of this regional instrument, the paper also briefly depicts four non-representative cases of flood risk and protection management, where the instrument was either applied or avoided. The article closes with an assessment of the CCF, concluding that the innovativeness of this instrument faded once the overarching sectoral paradigm shifted from technical flood protection to more comprehensive flood risk management.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/4/1050climate change factorflood risk managementinstrument choice frameworkGermanyprecautionary principle |
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| title | The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany |
| title_full | The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany |
| title_fullStr | The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany |
| title_short | The Ascending and Fading of a Progressive Policy Instrument: The Climate Change Factor in Southern Germany |
| title_sort | ascending and fading of a progressive policy instrument the climate change factor in southern germany |
| topic | climate change factor flood risk management instrument choice framework Germany precautionary principle |
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