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Abstract There has been an upsurge in studies of flood risk governance (FRG): steering and decision‐making by public and private actors as a complement to risk assessments and technical management options. The scholarly debate is, however, highly fragmented, complicating the production of cumulative insights. To address this knowledge gap, we used six governance strategies for achieving flood resilience that previously have been put forward as a conceptual framework to review 121 articles published between 2016 and 2019, complemented with insights contained in recent overview articles, to gauge the state‐of‐the‐art in FRG literature: to (a) diversify flood risk management strategies; (b) align the strategies; (c) adequately involve private actors, including citizens; (d) put an adequate rule system in place; (e) cater for sufficient monetary and non‐monetary resources; (f) inspire an open and inclusive normative debate. We found, first, that literature is producing insights on increasingly technically advanced risk assessments and agent‐based models but societal debate on justice in flood risk governance is getting attention. A clearly emerging topic is that of citizen engagement in flood risk governance. Second, the geographical focus of the studies is still skewed toward the Global North. To make progress in understanding flood risk governance for better resilience more systematic and comparative empirical assessments of flood risk governance in order to derive generalizable lessons while better taking into account the context‐specificity of FRG. Testing flood risk governance solutions against comparative cases, by balancing the geographical scope of research efforts, and enhancing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary working is a way to deliver knowledge for more resilience. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Planning Water

Parler d’inclusion démocratique, c’est chercher à impliquer les citoyen.ne.s dans les processus de prise de décision des organes politiques. Évidemment la première question qui vient, c’est celle de savoir comment le faire. Cette tâche complexe se joue sur de multiples échelles : au niveau national, au niveau des provinces ou des états, des régions, des villes; […]

In this editorial, the authors (and guest editors) introduce the Special Issue titled Understanding Game-based Approaches for Improving Sustainable Water Governance: The Potential of Serious Games to Solve Water Problems. The authors take another look at the twelve contributions, starting from the subtitle question: what is the potential? The authors summarize the insights and give directions for future research.

When analysing flood risk governance in France since the beginning of the 1980s, central government appears as a predominant actor. However, to understand contemporary French flood risk governance ( FRG ), it is also important to highlight how this domination has progressively been undermined since 1982. First, a decentralisation movement has been initiated whose main characteristics are an increasing involvement of local governments and a difficulty for national authorities to maintain their predominant role. The second main change is a diversification in flood risk strategies going together with a diversification in the definition of the flood risk issue. FRG is not a sole matter of protection through defence, preparation, and recovery strategies anymore. Both prevention and mitigation strategies have progressively gained in legitimacy. It is in the latter that local governments and stakeholders have increasingly got involved and have taken up responsibilities and initiatives. The paper focuses on the explanatory factors behind both stability and change, and especially on the ongoing tension, between path dependency factors (i.e. state power and role) and organisational capability of local actors.

Abstract Urban political ecology (UPE) has mainly evolved within the discipline of geography to examine the power relations that produce uneven urban spaces (infrastructures and natures) and unequal access to resources in cities. Its increasingly poststructuralist orientation demands the questioning of received categories and concepts, including those of (neoliberal) governance, government, and of the state. This paper attempts to open this black box by referring to the mostly anthropological literature on everyday governance and the everyday state. We argue that UPE could benefit from ethnographic governance studies to unveil multiple state and non‐state actors that influence the local environment, their diverse rationalities, normative registers, and interactions across scales. This would also to enrich and nuance geographical UPE accounts of neoliberal environmental governance and potentially render the framework more policy relevant.

Purpose This paper aims to provide scholars with a deep understanding of the field through the identification of strengths and weaknesses in the literature and support decision-makers in the development of new practices in local risk management based on scientific data. The specific question in this review asks: what are the drivers and barriers to local risk management? Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an overview of the scientific literature produce over the past 20 years of the divers and barriers to local risk management. This paper presents a scoping review of peer-reviewed articles published between 2000 and 2019 inclusively in the fields of public policy and public administration. Findings This paper makes three main observations regarding the state of the literature. First, this paper finds that scholars mainly focus on single risk and certain regions of the world. Second, there is multiple approached used by the literature to study risk management at the local level. Third, little attention is given to the political context in which local risk management takes place. Originality/value This paper is a complete literature review of more than 500 peer-reviewed articles published in academic journals regarding risk prevention policies over the past two decades. This paper analyzed the main findings of the current literature to provide a general view of the scholarship and improve the collective understanding of risk management at the local level by providing future research avenues.

schéma de couverture de risques et schéma d’aménagement et de développement), visant à développer de manière concertée avec les municipalités locales une vision commune et une planification conjointe, la MRC est la structure administrative qui, dans le cadre de l’appréciation des risques des SE, pourrait intégrer les principes de gouvernance multiniveau et de gouvernance horizontale. [...] 3.1.5 Le suivi et la révision Un système de suivi avec des indicateurs de performance doit être mis en place dans le but de valider toutes les étapes du processus de gestion des risques, la justesse des évaluations et des priorités établies ainsi que l’efficacité des mesures implantées et l’atteinte des objectifs fixés. [...] La composante "planification" correspond à l’élaboration de plans de mesures d’urgence, de plans de continuité des opérations et de plans de sécurité des actifs établis à l’issue des processus de gestion des risques. [...] Ce cadre théorique fait écho à l’approche globale et intégrée de la sécurité civile du Ministère de la sécurité publique qui repose sur trois principes « la prise en compte de tous les aléas, l’adoption de mesures couvrant les quatre dimensions de la sécurité ́civile et des actions concertées de tous les acteurs à tous les niveaux. [...] 32 Figure 1 - Extrait de la base de données de la MRC d’Argenteuil Figure 2 - Extrait de la base de données de la MRC de Brome-Missisquoi Fait saillant Malgré une bonne connaissance de son territoire par la MRC, la contribution des municipalités locales est fondamentale pour assurer un inventaire détaillé des SE.