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Adapting to climate change in flood damage compensation regimes A historical-comparative analysis of the United States and the Netherlands States and the Netherlands Emmy Bergsma University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Political Science

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Adapting to climate change in flood damage compensation regimes

A historical-comparative analysis of the United States and the Netherlands

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States and the Netherlands

Emmy Bergsma University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

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Two policy approaches to flood governance

Flood safety approach (NL)
Insurance approach (US)

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Insurance approach (US)

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Development of the flood safety approach (NL)

Economic stagnation

http://www.briansolis.com/2008/07/social- revolution-is-our-industrial/ http://www.ppsimons.nl/stamboom/oirsbeekla ndbouw.htm

Social liberalism

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http://emilms.fema.gov/IS0860b/index.htm; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-b-chambers/end-of- infrastructure_b_4632099.html; http://bcrassociates.co.uk/services/energy

A new elite

http://www.canonnoordoostpolder.nl; http://www.nieuwlanderfgoed.nl; http://www.biografischwoordenboekgelderland.nl; http://www.parlement.com http://www.pf.nl; http://beeldbank.rws.nl http://www.nampost.com.na

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Development of the insurance approach (US)

Post-New Deal

http://www.britannica.com; irregularnews.com

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A new elite The National Flood Insurance Program (1968)

http://www.ucsusa.org http://www.britannica.com; irregularnews.com press.uchicago.edu; http://www.colorado.edu

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Flood damage compensation in both approaches

Flood safety approach (NL)
Flood safety and flood damage compensation are separated.
Damage compensation according to principle of national

solidarity.

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Insurance approach (US)
Flood safety and flood damage compensation are integral

elements of a rational-action model.

Damage compensation based on multiple principles: financial

security, individual responsibility, cost-effectiveness.

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Responses to climate change in damage compensation In the Netherlands

Flood protection: individual and local responsibility.
Flood damage compensation: too arbitrary, too expensive.
Resistance against flood insurance for undermining national

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Resistance against flood insurance for undermining national

solidarity.

1998: Law on governmental damage compensation (WTS).
Legal security
Individual responsibility
National solidarity
2005: agrarian insurance; 2013-2015: rainfall insurance.

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Conclusion

In the Netherlands and in the US, two distinct approaches to flood governance have evolved in their specific social-cultural context. In response to climate change, Dutch flood governance has moved from a flood-safety to an insurance-approach, without reflection taking place on

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flood-safety to an insurance-approach, without reflection taking place on the value-conflicts that may arise from this shift in the field of flood damage compensation.

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Thank you!

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