Governing coastal risks as a social process—Facilitating integrative risk management by enhanced multi-stakeholder collaboration

摘要

Highlights?Implementing integrative risk management in practice is a major challenge.?Enhanced multi-sectoral structures and improved social and flexible processes are needed.?The presented framework stresses consideration of historical framing, risk perceptions and risk awareness.?Benefits of multi-stakeholder collaboration for integrative risk management policy-making are marked.AbstractScientific literature calls for a shift from exclusively technical towards enhanced social processes in risk management to cope with the challenges of increased complex governance regimes wherein different interests of contrasting institutions need to be considered, balanced and negotiated. However, practical implementation of this integrative perspective is still a major challenge – underlined amongst others by the recently published Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.