ABSTRACT
Detailed analysis of these other types of approaches to natural flood risk management would be useful complementary work (Kousky, 2010). They raise questions of whether the ‘national interest’ should be redefined in terms of a broader range of benefits, regardless of the main project purpose, and also how to choose projects when the Corps and local stakeholders may not agree on the best approach – particularly if the local government is paying more of the cost or is willing to pay additional costs to meet other goals. Local governments may be particularly interested in ‘recreation-induced regional economic development’, but this is traditionally viewed as a transfer by the Corps and not an increase in national income (New England Division of the Corps of Engineers, 1993, p. 36). Cross-agency, cross-jurisdiction projects with multiple funding sources can be challenging but may be part of the future of integrating natural approaches into flood-risk management.
