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Learning from Major Accidents and Crises Professor Eric Stern and Edward Deverell CRISMART. Collaboration with CRISMART CM Europe Program. CM Europe 2006-2009 ’Before’ ’During’ ’After’ Sponsored by MSB ( SRV/ KBM) Focus on major accidents/man-made and natural disasters.
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Learning from Major Accidents and Crises Professor Eric Stern and Edward Deverell CRISMART
Collaboration with CRISMART CM Europe Program • CM Europe 2006-2009 • ’Before’ • ’During’ • ’After’ • Sponsored by MSB (SRV/KBM) • Focus on major accidents/man-made and natural disasters
Key research questions/aims? • To what extent and how do public and private sector organizations learn from critical events? • Why do actors, cases and contexts exhibit different patterns of learning and change in response to critical events? • Contribute to the growing scientific literature on crisis accountability and learning • Identify candidate ’best practices’ for crisis evaluation and learning
Research design and method • Multiple methods • Comparative case studies • Case pairs • Additional case studies • Literature and conceptual studies • Primary empirical foci: Natural disasters, Critical infrastructure failures, Public order and law enforcement
Project-related publications • Governing After Crisis (Cambridge UP) • 2 published dissertations (Nohrstedt and Hansen), 1 approved (Deverell) • Dissertation ms (Koreus) • 18 published articles in international journals and volumes • 15 conference papers • 9 Studies and working papers
International and national cooperation • Cooperation and exchanges with universities in the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australian and Japan among others. • Close and ongoing cooperation with SRV, KBM, MSB, Regeringskansliet , EU and local/regional government • Conference ”Learning from Crises and Major Accidents ” (FHS May 12 2008) 150 particpants (leading scholars, practitioners) televised by SVT • Extensive educational , training and analytical support activities
Some scientific results • Problematizing simplistic before, during and after conceptualizations of the relationship between crisis and earning. • Intra vs inter-crisis learning • Issue context and advocacy coalitions • Intra and inter-organizational learning • Internal/external pressure • Organizational vs policy learning • Framing is key: threat/opportunity • Leadership orientation (conservative vs reformist) • Policy entrepreneurship • Bringing knowledge management in
Towards best practice and research implementation: an example • British HPA/EU DG SANCO seminar on pandemic evaluation • CRISMART’s Ten Top Tips for Crisis Evaluators