Collaborative crisis management
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Building upon the field of collaborative crisis management, CNDS fellows, Erik Persson and Mikael Granberg (Karlstad University) published an article in the Journal of Risk Research, presenting their case study findings on contingency planning for dam failure risks.
In this study, they focus on events that can have broad and disastrous impacts on society, high degrees of uncertainty and potentially cascading effects, by conducting an in- depth case study of collaborative crisis management tasked with contingency planning for dam failure risk in a large river basin in central Sweden. Here they find that there was a lack in reach of the collaboration potentially limiting capacity and capacity building in ways that can limit preparedness and increase vulnerability in a crisis situation. They also found that contingency planning was treated as a demarcated project with a beginning and an end and not entirely as a continuous process.