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The People and
Institutions
involved
Water authority experts
and officials/legislators
from the local and national
level played an important
role in the initiation and
development of the plans.
Typically, official public
hearings and events have
not benefited from the
participation of stakeholders
and citizens. The implementation
of measures will rely
heavily on municipal
politicians, water experts,
private actors and officials.
The stakeholders invited
in two workshops included
local municipalities, authorities
from different sectors,
local enterprises, farmers’
unions, fishery collectives
and youth organisations.
Participatory multi-criteria
analysis was used to compare
the acceptability of different
flood risk management
strategies. A questionnaire
on the issues of citizen flood
awareness, risk perceptions,
acceptability of and willingness
to pay for flood risk
management measures
and flood protection was sent
to 1,300 citizens in the flood
risk area. The questionnaire
served both the purpose of
informing and consulting the
citizens. The results indicate
that 22% of the respondents
(N=552) could consider
implementing flood protection
measures in the future and
17% could consider extending
their home insurance to
include flood damage
compensation.
The Outcome
of Action
At the end of 2015, the Flood
Risk Management Plan for
the Kalajoki river basin
(2016–2021) was approved
by the Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry and the River
Basin Management Plan for
the Oulujoki-Iijoki River basin
(2016-2021) was approved by
the Finnish Government.
Photo: North Ostrobothnian ELY-centre
Photo: Laura Liuska, ProAgria
Discussing on
the potential
measures in
a stakeholder
workshop
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