Explaining stability and change in Flood Risk Governance

STAR-FLOOD aims to identify design principles for appropriate and resilient Flood Risk Governance. Our results should therefore provide useful advice to the actors involved regarding the actions they can undertake to increase the chance that Flood Risk Governance is appropriate and resilient. We can only do this, if we can make a strong argument that a certain action (e.g. establishing an NGO, taking the initiative to make new legislation or any other intervention option or measure) indeed increases the chance that a certain outcome (e.g. the implementation of a more diverse set of Flood Risk Management Strategies) is achieved. Put in other words, we should be able to tell a convincing story as to how and why things happened and why changes did or did not take place.