Examining Truth Regimes Reveals How Local Communities View Flooding and River Management in the Lower Missouri River Basin, USA

Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 11, 2025

Abstract Riverine flooding is increasing in frequency and intensity, requiring river management agencies to consider new approaches working with communities on flood mitigation planning. Communication information sharing between complex, mistrust misinformation arise quickly when perceive that they are excluded from Subsequently, riverfront community members create narratives can be examined as truth regimes—truths created repeated indicate how its causes understood, represented, discussed within their communities—to explain why occurs area. To better understand perceptions of related flooding, we employed a qualitative methodology semi-structured interviews 112 3 the Missouri River, USA. Discourse analysis revealed three dominant regimes shape these communities: (1) upstream reservoir releases driven by recreational aims, such fishing boating reservoirs, instead downstream control; (2) endangered species protection surpasses other values management; (3) navigation for commerce no longer prioritized. For environmental managers, understanding circulating local affected help moderate frustration governing bodies, guide project messaging disarm false regimes, improve communication science, options policy implementation.

Language: Английский

Editorial: Semi-quantitative Methods to Unravel Landscape Discourses and Imaginaries for Integrated and Inclusive Landscape Governance

Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 74(1), P. 1 - 3

Published: June 10, 2024

Language: Английский