Webinar: Room for rivers and voices: A comparison of the Room for the River approaches in Alberta and the Netherlands

Historically, both Alberta and the Netherlands have focused on physical  infrastructure  approaches to flood mitigation.  However, following catastrophic  flood  risk in the 1990s, the Dutch government developed the  Room-for-River (RfR) program, breaking from their 1000-year tradition of structural engineering approaches of ‘fighting the water’ to ‘living with water’. In Alberta, the  high cost of the 2013  disaster and a growing sensitivity to the implications of climate variability triggered a reassessment of costly structural solutions and exploration of other approaches, leading to three  RfR  projects. In this presentation, I compare the RfR approaches in the Netherlands and Alberta through the Transition Governance Framework.  Unlike transferable  technological change, RfR requires fundamental institutional, governance, and cultural change, and hence is more challenging to implement. This presentation sets the stage for discussions on how a combination of policies and practices  could  make  more room for rivers and  voices in flood risk management.https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FQ7T2NxsTQOxiGv2E8MZ1Qhttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FQ7T2NxsTQOxiGv2E8MZ1Qhttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FQ7T2NxsTQOxiGv2E8MZ1Q