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July 16, 2026Water History0 citationsOpen Access

Flood Events and Governance in Holstebro: Memory and Maladaptation Analysis

A chronicle of floods foretold: Memory, maladaptation, and river governance in Holstebro, Denmark

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BPBo PoulsenLILotte Isager

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This article examines flood management and memory in Holstebro, indicating challenges in governance and resilience.

Key Points

  • The article aims to analyze historical flood events and their impacts on governance and memory in Holstebro.
  • Reconstructed 64 flood events using municipal archives and newspaper reporting
  • Analyzed socio-political and ecological implications of flood management
  • Explored the failure to recognize the river as a socio-natural system
  • Flood management has been ineffective, as it fails to acknowledge complex socio-natural dynamics.
  • Interventions have increased vulnerability by disaggregating ecological, hydraulic, and social factors.
  • Collective forgetting of flood experiences has hindered resilience and adaptive governance.

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Poulsen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a5874e82b46c88ba9ad0e1ahttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-026-00393-0
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