The impact of flood management policies on individual adaptation actions: Insights from a French case study

Claire Richert (), Katrin Erdlenbruch and Frédéric Grelot ()
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Claire Richert: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Frédéric Grelot: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: Floods can be managed at the collective and individual level. Knowing the interaction between measures taken at both scales can help design more efficient flood risk management policies. Here, we combine the data collected during a survey of 331 inhabitants of flood-prone areas in the South of France and spatial databases to empirically examine the interaction between individual adaptation measures and three types of collective management tools: a national insurance scheme, dikes, and zoning instruments. In line with the levee effect hypothesis, we found that dike protection reduces the probability to have or take individual adaptation measures and that this effect could be mitigated by zoning instruments. Moreover, we found that the national insurance scheme does not crowd out individual adaptation.

Keywords: levee effect; zoning mechanism; insurance; Flood policies; Levee eect; Individual adaptation decisions; Zoning; Insurance JEL Classication: Q54; Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-11
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2019, 165, pp.106387. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106387⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106387

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