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Adam guy - Sustainable Severn Forum 2015
1. Governance and the Tidal Thames
A Talk for Sustainable Severn, December 2015
by
Adam Guy
Ex-Programme Manager, Thames Estuary Partnership
Office for the Vice-Provost (Research), University College London
8. Thames history
• 12th Century - Crown sold river to City for cash
• Aldermen administer a huge and disparate conflict-riven territory
• 18th Century - Thames Commission
• Uncoordinated bunch of country squires and riparian landowners
• River full of obstructions and experienced material decline and pollution
• 19th Century - Thames Conservancy
• Bazalgette row led to ownership change in tideway riverbed and soils
• Eventually incorporated Thames Commission as well
• 20th Century - Thames Water Authority and PLA
• TWA > National Rivers Authority > EA, and Thames Water utility co.
12. So who governs or funds the Estuary?
Port of London Authority (PLA)
• Navigation, safety, obstructions
Environment Agency (EA)
• Ecology, safety, quality
Corporation of London (‘The City’)
• Health, imported foods
Thames Water
• Water supply, waste, & quality
Greater London Authority (GLA)
Essex and Kent County Councils
• Planning, development, people
The Public?
Safety
Socio-economic Environment
Integrated (Water)
Management
22. Criticism: Still too top-down?
Local stakeholder
• NIMBY
• Why can’t I walk my dog?
• Rewilding - dangerous?
• No surrender to the sea
• Language gaps
• Science blind
• Deny climate change
• Eco-burn/blind
• Interest groups
• Local
• Developers
• EU policy
• NGO/Voluntary
23. Research approach
• Alternative to ‘stakeholder consultation’ methods
• Heimat or ‘belonging’ rather than policy/funding
• UK Research Council - NERC/EPSRC Funding
• Create product - reproducible, cross-applications
24. One values-driven solution?
• Capture uncertainty - interval method/fuzzy logic
• Reduce ‘big-man’ effect - proportionate, no ‘loss’
• Clear audit trail - why/how did we decide that?
• New conservation ‘grammar’
• Values: why [do we care about our environment]?
• Elements: what [things are we talking about]?
• Properties: how [do we change these things]?
• Ultimately - iterative link to cost-benefit decisions
• i.e. how do we decide what to spend to get the best ‘value’
30. Future governance research?
• Universities:
• Plymouth, Nottingham, Western Australia?
• Partnership or stakeholder model of management
• Seek active management group making changes
• Appropriately scaled problem/management group
• Fluvial or coastal, or other governance problem?
adam.guy@darkwaters.org.uk