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Implementation through collaborative crisis management and contingency planning: The case of dam failure in Sweden
(Centrum för forskning om samhällsrisker)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5420-4330
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Center for Societal Risk Research, CSR (from 2020).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5356-4112
2021 (English)In: Journal of Risk Research, ISSN 1366-9877, E-ISSN 1466-4461, Vol. 24, no 10, p. 1335-1348Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article builds on the field of collaborative crisis management, a mix of collaborative public management (CPM) and crisis management (CM). A field that often focuses on large-scale threats, sometimes labelled societal challenges, whose impacts are broad and cross-cutting and impacts many actors in society and drives demand for collaboration. In this study, we are interested in events that have broad and disastrous impacts on soci- ety, high degrees of uncertainty and potentially cascading effects and we study this through an in-depth case study of collaborative crisis manage- ment tasked with contingency planning for dam failure risk in a large river basin in central Sweden. We find that there was a lack in reach of the col- laboration potentially limiting capacity and capacity building in ways that can limit preparedness and increase vulnerability in a crisis situation. We also found that contingency planning was treated as a demarcated project with a beginning and an end and not entirely as a continuous process. Both these observations go against the basic principles of contingency planning. Hence, there is a need to acknowledge and abridge varying lev- els of organisational capacity and build/maintain awareness within and between the organisations and actors involved. This study shows that the practice of cross-sector collaboration and contingency planning is both complex and complicated. The article has the potential to aid policy-mak- ers in the field to pinpoint central aspects of cross-sector collaboration and contingency planning that needs to be addressed in order to mitigate limits to preparedness and increased vulnerability in a crisis situation. A deeper knowledge on these challenges and problems can also support progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 (especially in relation to the aspect of building resilient infrastructure) through its empir- ical focus on infrastructure failure in terms of dam failure.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. Vol. 24, no 10, p. 1335-1348
Keywords [en]
cross-sector collaboration; contingency planning; risk governance; dam failure; extreme events
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Political Science
Research subject
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82185DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2020.1863845ISI: 000603874900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85098543271OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-82185DiVA, id: diva2:1513738
Available from: 2020-12-31 Created: 2020-12-31 Last updated: 2023-05-02Bibliographically approved
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1. The weakest link: Governing the risk of floods and dam failure in Sweden
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The weakest link: Governing the risk of floods and dam failure in Sweden
2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The effects of climate change are already being felt today, and future effects, which will be determined by the readiness and resolve of today’s world leaders, are fraught with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and transboundary effects – characteristics of systemic risk. Since climate change is seen as a threat multiplier, the risks that might be impacted by climate change, such as floods and dam failure, will be affected by systemic risk characteristics as well. Recent literature on risk governance calls for a more inclusive approach to address the challenges of systemic risks. Sweden has adopted the Sendai Framework, which aims to reduce disaster risk and strengthen societal resilience through a more people-centered approach. Sweden can be expected to have the resources and institutional structures needed to be able to implement the framework at a high level. However, evaluations of recent crises have shown a discrepancy between what can be expected and actual performance. This thesis aims to increase the understanding of contextual barriers to and drivers of inclusive risk governance, with a focus on responsibilities, (mandated) collaboration, and stakeholder participation, as an approach to increase societal resilience against disaster and systemic risk. The aim is reached by studying flood-related systemic risks and their governance. Three distinct, qualitative case studies focusing on different aspects of the Swedish disaster risk reduction and risk governance systems in relation to the risk of floods and dam failure are the empirical foundation for the four papers that are appended in the thesis. The thesis concludes that there is a need for a change in how resilience is framed, as part of a paradigm shift to a discourse that views resilience as a measure of adaptive capacity, and a change in how systemic risks should be understood and governed, as part of a paradigm shift to an inclusive risk governance framework.

Abstract [sv]

Effekterna av klimatförändringarna märks idag, och framtida effekter, som avgörs av beslutsamheten hos dagens ledare, har höga nivåer av komplexitet, osäkerhet, tvetydighet och effektöverskridande – egenskaper hos systemrisker. Eftersom klimatförändringar ses som en hotmultiplikator kommer de risker som kan påverkas av klimatförändringar, såsom översvämningar och dammbrott, också att påverkas av systemriskegenskaper. Nylig litteratur om riskstyrning föreslår ett mer inkluderande tillvägagångssätt för att hantera utmaningarna med systemrisker. Sverige har antagit Sendai Framework, som syftar till att minska katastrofrisken och stärka samhällelig motståndskraft genom ett mer människocentrerat förhållningssätt. Sverige kan förväntas ha de resurser och institutionella strukturer som behövs för att kunna implementera ramverket på hög nivå. Utvärderingar av kriser det senaste årtiondet har dock visat att det finns en diskrepans mellan vad som kan förväntas och faktisk prestation. Syftet med denna avhandling är att öka förståelsen för kontextuella hinder och drivkrafter för inkluderande riskstyrning, med fokus på ansvar; (obligatorisk) samverkan; och intressentdeltagande, som ett tillvägagångssätt för att öka samhällets resiliens mot katastrofer och systemrisker. Målet nås genom en studie av översvämningsrelaterade systemrisker och deras styrning. Tre distinkta, kvalitativa fallstudier som fokuserar på olika aspekter av de svenska katastrofriskreduktions- och riskstyrningssystemen i relation till översvämningsrisk och risk för dammbrott är den empiriska grunden för de fyra artiklar som ligger till grund för avhandlingen. Slutsatsen av avhandlingen är att det finns ett behov av en förändring av hur resiliens betraktas, som en del av ett paradigmskifte till en diskurs som ser resiliens som ett mått på anpassningsförmåga, och en förändring av hur systemrisker ska förstås och styras, som del av ett paradigmskifte till ett ramverk för inkluderande riskstyrning.

Abstract [en]

This thesis aims to increase the understanding of contextual barriers to and drivers of inclusive risk governance, with a focus on responsibilities, (mandated) collaboration, and stakeholder participation, as an approach to increase societal resilience against disaster and systemic risk. The aim is reached by studying flood-related systemic risks and their governance. Three distinct, qualitative case studies focusing on different aspects of the Swedish disaster risk reduction and risk governance systems in relation to the risk of floods and dam failure are the empirical foundation for the four papers that are appended in the thesis. The thesis concludes that there is a need for a change in how resilience is framed, as part of a paradigm shift to a discourse that views resilience as a measure of adaptive capacity, and a change in how systemic risks should be understood and governed, as part of a paradigm shift to an inclusive risk governance framework.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2023. p. 114
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2023:19
Keywords
risk governance, early warning systems, flood risk, risk of dam failure, natural hazards, disaster risk reduction, preparedness, crisis management, systems theory, collaboration, participation, resilience, riskstyrning, varningssystem, översvämningsrisk, dammbrottsrisk, naturolycka, katastrofriskreducering, beredskap, krishantering, systemteori, samverkan, deltagande, resiliens
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Research subject
Risk and Environmental Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-94507 (URN)978-91-7867-380-3 (ISBN)978-91-7867-381-0 (ISBN)
Public defence
2023-06-16, Eva Erikssonsalen, 21A 342, Karlstad, 09:15 (Swedish)
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