Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J Environ Manage. 2013 Oct 15;128:1033-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.06.023. Epub 2013 Aug 1.
In The Netherlands, river management strategies and land use of floodplains have changed drastically over the last two decades. Due to an integrated and participatory planning style, many agricultural fields in floodplains were transformed to nature. The idea of "self-regulating nature" in the floodplains and policies such as Room for the River and WaalWeelde created more multifunctional and natural floodplains. In this way, during the planning phase, win-win situations were created between flood protection and nature. It was only later that obstacles occurred with regard to the maintenance of floodplains, mainly because of different perspectives of the stakeholders on how to reconcile flood protection and nature. Therefore this study focuses on the opinions of persons involved with 'future' floodplain management strategies, which have been divided into five themes: ·visions of floodplain management; ·collaborators in floodplain management; ·visions of nature and self-regulating nature; ·realization of Natura 2000 goals in floodplains; ·feasibility of the Cyclic Floodplain Rejuvenation (CFR) strategy. We interviewed various persons involved in river and nature management along the Waal River. Based on our findings, it is concluded that an integrated planning approach has not been incorporated into the maintenance strategies and programs and, as a result, new, innovative management strategies such as CFR are proving to be incompatible with 'static' regulations such as Natura 2000's conservation goals and flood protection norms. However, by exploring the responders' visions of nature, we found that the majority of them preferred a dynamic vision of floodplains and, for this reason, they have advocated for more flexibility in current policies related to river and nature management. Additionally, the respondents emphasized the importance of multi-stakeholder collaboration to realize the goal of cost-efficient floodplain management.
在过去的二十年中，荷兰的河流管理策略和洪泛区土地利用发生了巨大变化。由于采用了综合和参与式的规划方式，许多洪泛区的农田已转变为自然区。洪泛区的“自然自我调节”理念以及“为河流留出空间”和“瓦勒韦德”等政策创造了更多多功能和自然的洪泛区。通过这种方式，在规划阶段，防洪和自然之间就创造了双赢局面。只是后来，由于利益相关者对如何调和防洪和自然的看法不同，洪泛区的维护出现了障碍。因此，本研究侧重于参与“未来”洪泛区管理策略的人员的意见，这些意见分为五个主题：·洪泛区管理愿景；·洪泛区管理的合作者；·自然和自我调节自然的愿景；·洪泛区实现自然 2000 目标；·周期性洪泛区复兴（CFR）策略的可行性。我们采访了瓦勒河沿岸参与河流和自然管理的各种人员。根据我们的发现，可以得出的结论是，综合规划方法尚未纳入维护策略和计划中，因此，CFR 等新的创新管理策略与自然 2000 的保护目标和防洪规范等“静态”法规不兼容。然而，通过探索响应者对自然的愿景，我们发现他们中的大多数人更喜欢洪泛区的动态愿景，因此，他们主张在与河流和自然管理相关的现行政策中增加更多的灵活性。此外，受访者强调了多利益相关者合作的重要性，以实现具有成本效益的洪泛区管理目标。
