Volume 25, Issue 1, December 2018, Pages 102–110
ABDERRAHIM EL HAMDANI1, MOHAMED HADDY2, and ABDERRAZAK ELKILALI3
1 Institut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme, Rabat, Morocco
2 Institut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme, Rabat, Morocco
3 Department of Economics and Management Sciences, Faculty of Law and Economics, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: English
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This paper presents the application of a proposed analytical framework that takes cultural dimensions as main parameters to explain territorial development processes. It is illustrated through the analysis of flood risk management in Morocco. This paper explores this relationship and suggests that a cultural studies approach, despite its weaknesses, potentially revitalizes the significance of culture in relationship to territorial development. It aims to help planners and policy makers to better understand how local planning cultures should be taken into consideration in policy planning processes, The culture -territorial development conceptual framework shows a high level of validity and applicability to explain territorial development processes in the Moroccan cultural contexts. The paper addresses three principal elements that are necessary for understanding relations between culture and territory development, local planning cultures and spatial development outcomes. They are (i) three facets of culture expressions relating to flood risk management – risk perception, conception on human-nature relationships and conception on human relationships; (ii) four fundamental factors (physical conditions, attributes of the community, formal institutions and informal institutions) and their interrelationships that condition decision-making processes; and (iii) three change-determining factors (diversity, consistency and power relations).
Author Keywords: culture, Risk, territorial development, culturel policies, risk management, culture-risk nexus.
ABDERRAHIM EL HAMDANI1, MOHAMED HADDY2, and ABDERRAZAK ELKILALI3
1 Institut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme, Rabat, Morocco
2 Institut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme, Rabat, Morocco
3 Department of Economics and Management Sciences, Faculty of Law and Economics, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper presents the application of a proposed analytical framework that takes cultural dimensions as main parameters to explain territorial development processes. It is illustrated through the analysis of flood risk management in Morocco. This paper explores this relationship and suggests that a cultural studies approach, despite its weaknesses, potentially revitalizes the significance of culture in relationship to territorial development. It aims to help planners and policy makers to better understand how local planning cultures should be taken into consideration in policy planning processes, The culture -territorial development conceptual framework shows a high level of validity and applicability to explain territorial development processes in the Moroccan cultural contexts. The paper addresses three principal elements that are necessary for understanding relations between culture and territory development, local planning cultures and spatial development outcomes. They are (i) three facets of culture expressions relating to flood risk management – risk perception, conception on human-nature relationships and conception on human relationships; (ii) four fundamental factors (physical conditions, attributes of the community, formal institutions and informal institutions) and their interrelationships that condition decision-making processes; and (iii) three change-determining factors (diversity, consistency and power relations).
Author Keywords: culture, Risk, territorial development, culturel policies, risk management, culture-risk nexus.
How to Cite this Article
ABDERRAHIM EL HAMDANI, MOHAMED HADDY, and ABDERRAZAK ELKILALI, “CULTURE AND RISK NEXUS : THE ROLE OF CULTUREL RISK MANAGEMENT ON TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN MOROCCO,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 102–110, December 2018.
