Abstract
We discuss two contrasting discourses of environmental management for the management of rivers and floodplain environments in the United Kingdom. Through the 1990s a long-established flood defence discourse gave way to a new discourse of river and floodplain restoration. We draw on qualitative interviews with river managers to set out these discourses, and consider the engagement between them. We consider particularly the way in which flood defence engineers have resisted and gradually been won over to aspects of the new restoration discourse, and the role of champions in that discourse transition.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1929-1942 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Environment and Planning A |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| Publication status | Published - Nov 2004 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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