Disconnected policies and actors and the missing role of spatial planning throughout the risk management cycle |
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Authors: | Kalliopi Sapountzaki Sylvia Wanczura Gabriella Casertano Stefan Greiving Gavriil Xanthopoulos Floriana F Ferrara |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece;(2) 70, El. Benizelou Av., Kallithea, Athens, 17671, Greece;(3) Institute of Fire Service and Rescue Technologies, Fire Department of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;(4) Regione Lazio, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Rome, Italy;(5) Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;(6) National Agricultural Research Foundation, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems and Forest Products Technology, Athens, Greece;(7) T6 Ecosystems srl, Rome, Italy |
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Abstract: | The present work addresses the problem of lack of coordination between policies and actors with joint competence for risk
management, i.e., civil protection, spatial planning, and sectoral planning (e.g., forest policy in the case of forest fire
risk). Spatial planning in particular is assigned a minor or no role at all though it might perfectly operate as the coordinating
policy platform; the reason is that spatially relevant analysis and policy guidance is an omnipresent component of the risk
management cycle. However, disconnected risk relevant policies turning a blind eye to spatial planning might cause several
adverse repercussions: Breaks in the response-preparedness-prevention-remediation chain (which should function as a continuum),
minimal attention to prevention, risk expansion and growth instead of mitigation, lack of synergies between involved actors
as well as duplicated or even diverging measures and funding. The authors bear witness to the above suggestions by examining
three cases of European (regional and local) risk management systems faced with failures when confronting natural hazards
(floods and forest fires). These three systems are embedded in different types of political-administrative structures, namely
those of the city of Dortmund (Germany) facing floods, Eastern Attica region (Greece), and Lazio Region (Italy) facing forest
fires. |
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