The interplay of top-down planning and adaptive self-organization in an African floodplain
| Autor: | Mark Moritz, Sarah Laborde, Aboukar Mahamat |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Self-organization
geography Hydraulic control geography.geographical_feature_category Sociology and Political Science Ecology Floodplain business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 0208 environmental biotechnology Environmental resource management Flooding (psychology) 02 engineering and technology Top-down and bottom-up design Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Livelihood Natural (archaeology) 020801 environmental engineering Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Psychological resilience business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Human Ecology. 46:171-182 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9915 0300-7839 |
| Popis: | Natural floodplains are complex social-ecological systems in which human livelihoods are tightly coupled with flooding dynamics. In this paper, we argue that hydraulic planning in such systems, including to mitigate extreme floods, must consider three key features of adaptive self-organizing systems in floodplains - connectivity, learning feedbacks, and rhythms - to support the resilience of floodplain communities to extreme floods. We illustrate this argument with a case study of the Logone Floodplain, Cameroon. Based on hydrological data, ethnographic research and a series of focus group interviews with floodplain villagers, we analyze the interplay of top-down planning and adaptive self-organization in response to two extreme floods in 2012 and 2015. We show that recent top-down strategies of hydraulic control in the floodplain have led to more hydraulic uncertainty for local populations, and curtailed the conditions for sustainable self-organization in the floodplain. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full text from SpringerLink