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Papers by Peter Davids
InPlanning eBooks, 2020
Planning the Low Countries-Understanding the similarities within dissimilarities | Luuk Boelens &... more Planning the Low Countries-Understanding the similarities within dissimilarities | Luuk Boelens & Ann Pisman ACTOR Struggling with climate change-Dealing with a complex adaptive system | Luuk Boelens Flood justice in Flanders | Tom Goosse Collecting Historic Flood Data in Data-sparse Areas-A Citizen Approach | Hanne Glas & Greet Deruyter Flood label: a new instrument to involve homeowners in flood risk management | Peter Davids Spatial planning in an age of active citizenship-Toward the art of creating consistency | Beitske Boonstra "My data are better than yours" How environmental health experts have become new planning actors | Thomas Verbeek The spatial planner as a mediator, or as an actor? Looking back at the recent debate about new shopping malls in the Brussels periphery | Kobe Boussauw & Dirk Lauwers Opening up the Planning Landscape
The effects of floods belong to the most frequently occurring and most costly natural disasters i... more The effects of floods belong to the most frequently occurring and most costly natural disasters in Europe. Influenced by climate change, flood events might happen more often, causing more damage. Traditional flood protection is no longer sufficient. Governments try to find new allies: home owners could implement mitigation measures in and around their houses.
Shifting responsibilities in flood risk management Governments are struggling with flood risk man... more Shifting responsibilities in flood risk management Governments are struggling with flood risk management, particularly when it comes to pluvial floods that lead to local floods in neighbourhoods (Adikari & Yoshitani, 2009; IPCC, 2014). Traditionally, governments try to reduce the probability of flood events with dikes and other technical solutions. Influenced by the concept of resilience, flood risk management is becoming more adaptive, flexible, and dynamic (McClymont, Morrison, Beevers, & Carmen, 2019). The approach of risk as a calculation of probability and damage (risk = probability x loss) is leading to the introduction of new approaches, strategies, and actors in the field of flood risk management. To reduce the risk, one can also mitigate the potential damage, by 'absorbing' the floods in the city (Folke, 2006; Restemeyer, Woltjer, & van den Brink, 2015). For example: a homeowner could reduce potential damage by removing valuable furniture from the basement or by the installation of bulkheads and pumps. This means that flood risk management is no longer solely a governmental activity, as citizens can have an active role using their own measures to protect their property and therefore reduce flood damage (Mees, Tempels, Crabbé, & Boelens, 2016; White, Connelly, Garvin, Lawson, & O'hare, 2018). Based on an effectiveness/efficiency analysis, sometimes interventions at the local level (for example at residential buildings) are preferred over extensive spatial interventions (Hoss, Jonkman, & Maaskant, 2011; Kaufmann, Mees, Liefferink, & Crabbé, 2016). However, citizens are not always aware of their flood risks, lack information on how to protect their houses, or seem unwilling to take measures as they perceive flood risk management as a governmental task (Bubeck, Botzen, & Aerts, 2012). New experiments on tailored flood risk strategies should be executed to inform, tempt, or oblige these residents to participate in flood risk management
Urban Planning
To achieve a more flood-resilient society, it is essential to involve citizens. Therefore, new in... more To achieve a more flood-resilient society, it is essential to involve citizens. Therefore, new instruments, such as tailor-made advice for homeowners, are being developed to inform homeowners about adaptive strategies in building to motivate them to implement these measures. This article evaluates if public–private interactions, such as tailored advice, change risk behaviour and therefore increase flood resilience among homeowners. The article conducted semi-structured interviews with homeowners who had received advice as well as involved experts in two case study regions in Europe: Flanders in Belgium and Vorarlberg in Austria. The results show how the tailored advice helps homeowners who are already aware of flood risks and provides them with answers on how to adapt a house. However, the tool seems to lack the ability to inform and “recruit” new groups of homeowners who are not as familiar with flood risks. As such, this article concludes that this initiative has a relatively low ...
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Transition towards sustainable food production strongly depends upon the field of spatial plannin... more Transition towards sustainable food production strongly depends upon the field of spatial planning as they constrain, enable and direct spatial developments. This paper aims to discuss the role of spatial planning in the development of urban agriculture. Urban agriculture novelties aim to contribute to a sustainable transition of the urban food system. The Multi-Level Perspective, formed the theoretical lens to analyze the development of urban agriculture. This paper presents an explorative analysis of a wide range of urban agriculture projects in four selected cities in Europe: London, Helsinki (Finland), Malmö (Sweden) and Almere (the Netherlands). The empirical data covers interviews with 35 individuals including initiators and policy makers involved in 16 urban agriculture projects. The results indicate that innovative urban agriculture initiatives are dealing with market and regulatory obstacles. Therefore, protection of these novelties by means of grants, volunteers and instit...
The globalization of the food system is considered as one of the causes of a region’s loss of ide... more The globalization of the food system is considered as one of the causes of a region’s loss of identity; the disconnection of people and place. Recently, cities started to develop urban food strategies in order to reconnect people and food. Guidance on how to integrate food into spatial planning and design is necessary to develop integral regional plans. Therefore, the following research question is formulated: What steps to adopt ‘food-sensitive planning’ on the local level can be defined? To explore steps in food planning an analysis of food strategies developed for London, Amsterdam and Malmö (Sweden) was carried out. The food strategies were studied for their characteristics (goals, target group and approach) and their integration in other local policies. The municipality of Ridderkerk formed a case study to analyze food related challenges and food policy solutions. A synthesis of the food strategies provided a five-step plan to integrate food sensitive planning in existing plans...
InPlanning eBooks, 2020
Planning the Low Countries-Understanding the similarities within dissimilarities | Luuk Boelens &... more Planning the Low Countries-Understanding the similarities within dissimilarities | Luuk Boelens & Ann Pisman ACTOR Struggling with climate change-Dealing with a complex adaptive system | Luuk Boelens Flood justice in Flanders | Tom Goosse Collecting Historic Flood Data in Data-sparse Areas-A Citizen Approach | Hanne Glas & Greet Deruyter Flood label: a new instrument to involve homeowners in flood risk management | Peter Davids Spatial planning in an age of active citizenship-Toward the art of creating consistency | Beitske Boonstra "My data are better than yours" How environmental health experts have become new planning actors | Thomas Verbeek The spatial planner as a mediator, or as an actor? Looking back at the recent debate about new shopping malls in the Brussels periphery | Kobe Boussauw & Dirk Lauwers Opening up the Planning Landscape
The effects of floods belong to the most frequently occurring and most costly natural disasters i... more The effects of floods belong to the most frequently occurring and most costly natural disasters in Europe. Influenced by climate change, flood events might happen more often, causing more damage. Traditional flood protection is no longer sufficient. Governments try to find new allies: home owners could implement mitigation measures in and around their houses.
Shifting responsibilities in flood risk management Governments are struggling with flood risk man... more Shifting responsibilities in flood risk management Governments are struggling with flood risk management, particularly when it comes to pluvial floods that lead to local floods in neighbourhoods (Adikari & Yoshitani, 2009; IPCC, 2014). Traditionally, governments try to reduce the probability of flood events with dikes and other technical solutions. Influenced by the concept of resilience, flood risk management is becoming more adaptive, flexible, and dynamic (McClymont, Morrison, Beevers, & Carmen, 2019). The approach of risk as a calculation of probability and damage (risk = probability x loss) is leading to the introduction of new approaches, strategies, and actors in the field of flood risk management. To reduce the risk, one can also mitigate the potential damage, by 'absorbing' the floods in the city (Folke, 2006; Restemeyer, Woltjer, & van den Brink, 2015). For example: a homeowner could reduce potential damage by removing valuable furniture from the basement or by the installation of bulkheads and pumps. This means that flood risk management is no longer solely a governmental activity, as citizens can have an active role using their own measures to protect their property and therefore reduce flood damage (Mees, Tempels, Crabbé, & Boelens, 2016; White, Connelly, Garvin, Lawson, & O'hare, 2018). Based on an effectiveness/efficiency analysis, sometimes interventions at the local level (for example at residential buildings) are preferred over extensive spatial interventions (Hoss, Jonkman, & Maaskant, 2011; Kaufmann, Mees, Liefferink, & Crabbé, 2016). However, citizens are not always aware of their flood risks, lack information on how to protect their houses, or seem unwilling to take measures as they perceive flood risk management as a governmental task (Bubeck, Botzen, & Aerts, 2012). New experiments on tailored flood risk strategies should be executed to inform, tempt, or oblige these residents to participate in flood risk management
Urban Planning
To achieve a more flood-resilient society, it is essential to involve citizens. Therefore, new in... more To achieve a more flood-resilient society, it is essential to involve citizens. Therefore, new instruments, such as tailor-made advice for homeowners, are being developed to inform homeowners about adaptive strategies in building to motivate them to implement these measures. This article evaluates if public–private interactions, such as tailored advice, change risk behaviour and therefore increase flood resilience among homeowners. The article conducted semi-structured interviews with homeowners who had received advice as well as involved experts in two case study regions in Europe: Flanders in Belgium and Vorarlberg in Austria. The results show how the tailored advice helps homeowners who are already aware of flood risks and provides them with answers on how to adapt a house. However, the tool seems to lack the ability to inform and “recruit” new groups of homeowners who are not as familiar with flood risks. As such, this article concludes that this initiative has a relatively low ...
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Transition towards sustainable food production strongly depends upon the field of spatial plannin... more Transition towards sustainable food production strongly depends upon the field of spatial planning as they constrain, enable and direct spatial developments. This paper aims to discuss the role of spatial planning in the development of urban agriculture. Urban agriculture novelties aim to contribute to a sustainable transition of the urban food system. The Multi-Level Perspective, formed the theoretical lens to analyze the development of urban agriculture. This paper presents an explorative analysis of a wide range of urban agriculture projects in four selected cities in Europe: London, Helsinki (Finland), Malmö (Sweden) and Almere (the Netherlands). The empirical data covers interviews with 35 individuals including initiators and policy makers involved in 16 urban agriculture projects. The results indicate that innovative urban agriculture initiatives are dealing with market and regulatory obstacles. Therefore, protection of these novelties by means of grants, volunteers and instit...
The globalization of the food system is considered as one of the causes of a region’s loss of ide... more The globalization of the food system is considered as one of the causes of a region’s loss of identity; the disconnection of people and place. Recently, cities started to develop urban food strategies in order to reconnect people and food. Guidance on how to integrate food into spatial planning and design is necessary to develop integral regional plans. Therefore, the following research question is formulated: What steps to adopt ‘food-sensitive planning’ on the local level can be defined? To explore steps in food planning an analysis of food strategies developed for London, Amsterdam and Malmö (Sweden) was carried out. The food strategies were studied for their characteristics (goals, target group and approach) and their integration in other local policies. The municipality of Ridderkerk formed a case study to analyze food related challenges and food policy solutions. A synthesis of the food strategies provided a five-step plan to integrate food sensitive planning in existing plans...