Reframing Floods: Proposals and Politics

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wesselink ◽  
Jeroen Warner
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Spiral Dynamics ◽  
Introductory Article

The aim of this special volume is to critically examine the various ways in which floods and flood management are framed in current policies, especially the “space for rivers” policies that have been adopted in many countries of Western Europe. The articles in this volume discuss different aspects of this framing, while employing different theoretical frames. Of these, Spiral Dynamics stands out as the most intriguing and least known. The papers thereby potentially contribute to reframing policy contents and/or procedures: either because they show alternative policy contents and/or because they show different ways of looking at policy making. This introductory article provides an overview of what framing means in a policy-making context, thereby highlighting the politics of engaging in (re)framing.

A Computational Agent Model of Flood Management Strategies

2012 ◽  
pp. 522-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Brouwers ◽  
Magnus Boman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Model ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Robust Decisions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Stakeholder Communication

A geographically explicit flood simulation model was designed and implemented as a tool for policy making support, illustrated here with two simple flood management strategies pertaining to the Upper Tisza area in Hungary. The model integrates aspects of the geographical, hydrological, economical, land use, and social context. The perspectives of different stakeholders are represented as agents that make decisions on whether or not to buy flood insurance. The authors demonstrate that agent-based models can be important for policy issues in general, and for sustainable development policy issues in particular, by aiding stakeholder communication and learning, thereby increasing the chances of reaching robust decisions. The agent-based approach enables the highlighting and communication of distributional effects of policy changes at the micro-level, as illustrated by several graphical representations of outputs from the model.

scholarly journals Electoral Cycles in Government Policy Making: Strategic Timing of Austerity Reform Measures in Western Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Strobl ◽  
Hanna Bäck ◽  
Wolfgang C. Müller ◽  
Mariyana Angelova
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Leadership Change ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Electoral Cycles ◽  
Western European ◽  
Empirical Analyses

AbstractThis article investigates whether governing parties strategically time austerity policies to help them win re-election. It contributes to existing research by focusing directly on government policy output, analyzing over 1,200 welfare and taxation austerity measures in thirteen Western European countries over twenty years. In line with previous research, the authors find that governments become less likely to introduce austerity measures as elections approach. The study introduces original hypotheses about which governments have theabilityandopportunityto strategically time policy decisions. The authors suggest that minimal winning cabinets with leadership change (new prime ministers) face less complex bargaining environments and can credibly shift responsibility for austerity measures to the preceding government. The empirical analyses show that these governments are most likely to strategically time austerity policies.

scholarly journals Migration and Differential Labour Market Participation: Theoretical Directions, Recurring Themes, Implications of Brexit and Areas for Future Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-622
Author(s):  
Gina Netto ◽  
Gary Craig
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Policy Sociology ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Extensive research in a number of disciplines, including economics, social policy, sociology, geography and management have been undertaken relating to migrant participation in the labour market. Given the highly topical nature of migrant employment in Western Europe and the US, the aim of this brief review is to draw together some of the more recent attempts to theorise on the presence of migrants in the labour market, discuss some of the recurrent themes that have emerged from empirical research in this area, consider some of the main implications for policy-making in what now seems likely to be known as the post-Brexit era and outline areas for future research. In doing so, the intention is to contribute to further inter-disciplinary theory-building and to a more nuanced understanding of the complexity of this highly politicised area and the implications of migrant employment for policy and future research.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
European Countries ◽  
General Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuclear Energy Policy

This chapter first evaluates the hypotheses presented in Chapter 2, drawing on the book’s seven country case studies. Second, it extends the scope of analysis to all of Western Europe, with short analytical narratives of the nuclear energy trajectory in the remaining West European countries in an appendix. The chapter distinguishes four groups of countries in terms of nuclear energy policy reversals and discusses the commonalities and differences between them. Third, the chapter turns to quantitative analysis. On the most general level the analyses in this book demonstrate that nuclear energy policy has become incorporated in the competition between the mainstream parties that have proved remarkably flexible in adapting their positions and policy-making if government office was at stake. The chapter highlights the factors that will be important for the future of nuclear energy in Western Europe and the world.

One Hundred Years of the Galerkin Method

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Repin
Keyword(s):  
Galerkin Method ◽  
Computational Methods ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Hundredth Anniversary ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Remarkable Event ◽  
The Galerkin Method ◽  
The University

AbstractIn 2016, the biennial conference Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (CMAM) was dedicated to a remarkable event: the hundredth anniversary of the Galerkin method. This special volume of the same name journal is mainly based on the papers of participants of this conference. The introductory article contains a brief description of the origin and development of the Galerkin method and gives an overview of the conference, which was held at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), July 31 – August 6, 2016.

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