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Journal of Environmental Management 196 (2017) 376 e386 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Environmental Management journal homepage: /locate/jenvman Research article Discursive junctions in flood risk governance e A comparative understanding in six European countries * Maria Kaufmann , Mark Wiering Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Thomas van Aquinostraat, P.O. Box 9108, 6500 HK, Nijmegen, The Netherlands a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Flood risks are managed differently across Europe. While a number of research studies aim to understand Received 23 November 2016 these differences, they tend to pay little attention to the social constructionist aspects of flood risk Received in revised form governance, i.e. the meaning that societies give to flood risk and governance. This paper aims to address 20 February 2017 this gap by understanding differences in flood risk management approaches (FRMA) from a discursive- Accepted 3 March 2017 institutional perspective. Based on this perspective, an analytical framework was developed to sys- tematically analyse and compare discourses pertaining to flood risk and its governance in six European member states (England (the United Kingdom), Flanders (Belgium), France, the Netherlands, Poland and Keywords: Flood risk governance