Flood barriers that protect one area flood its neighbors instead

Evidence

Such protective measures raise thorny ethical issues, because barriers divert surging water to neighboring regions, which then are flooded even more heavily. What if the inundated neighboring areas are heavily populated? — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2777

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: protective infrastructure as a moral-disengagement vehicle — the barrier lets one community feel virtuous while offloading harm onto unseen others, a concrete spatial instance of moral disengagement.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece’s infrastructure theme, and to moral-hazard framing of protective systems. — connects to: Erosion and drainage threaten plover habitat, foreshadowing human harm from the same — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 136; Contradictory engineered water management signals the loss of flood equilibrium — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 424; Fragmented local jurisdictions let developers evade strict septic regulation by building elsewhere — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 405 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2777