Distributional Effects of EU Flood Risk Management and the Law: The Netherlands, Flanders and France as case studies

Flood risk management is a policy field in which the distribution of burdens and benefits plays an important role. As flood risks are distributed unequally among the members of society, people in risk areas benefit more from flood risk management than people living in a relatively ‘risk-free’ area. At the same time the infringements of property rights in the case of flood risk management are burdens that a small group of people have to bear in order to benefit a larger group of people, or in some cases, society as a whole. This unequal distribution of burdens is a distributional effect of floo... Mehr ...