Beyond Emergency Response: Institutional Collective Action for Subdistrict Flood-Risk Governance - A Theory-Focused Narrative Review and Practice Translation
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https://doi.org/10.62951/ijss.v3i3.723Keywords:
Disaster Governance, Flood-Risk Governance, Institutional Collective Action, Interorganizational Coordination, Subdistrict AdministrationAbstract
Flood-risk governance in remote subdistricts is not only an emergency-response problem; it is an institutional collective-action problem involving interdependent tasks, divided authority, unequal resources, and changing coordination requirements across disaster phases. This theory-focused narrative review reconstructs the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) Framework and translates it for a subdistrict-scale governance arena, using Sembakung Atulai in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, as a documented contextual anchor rather than an empirically evaluated case. Six Scopus search runs yielded 464 raw records; after deduplication and screening, 45 accessible full texts were assessed and 43 peer reviewed journal articles were included in a qualitative-interpretive synthesis. The review identifies ICA's core account of fragmented authority, collaboration risks, transaction costs, integration mechanisms, social embeddedness, and institutional feedback, while retaining boundaries concerning rationality, power, effectiveness, legitimacy, context, and temporal change. The synthesis produces a six-domain Theory-to-Practice Translation Framework: interdependence and actor architecture; differentiated collaboration-risk diagnosis; a fit-for-purpose integration-mechanism portfolio; relational capacity, commitment, and network resilience; phase-sensitive adaptation and institutional learning; and democratic anchorage and contextual legitimacy. Its original contribution is the integration of these established constructs into an actor-aware, phase-sensitive administrative sequence that distinguishes core ICA mechanisms from disaster-governance translation safeguards. The framework offers diagnostic questions and design options but requires legal-institutional and empirical validation before local application.
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