Suchergebnisse

Purpose
When a crisis strikes, responders need to make sense of it to gain an understanding of its origins, nature and implications. In this way, crisis sensemaking guides the implementation of the response. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the sensemaking questions that responders need to address for achieving effective and efficient crisis management.


Design/methodology/approach
Data are drawn from six exercises, in which teams of professionals from different crisis organizations were confronted with two terrorist attacks. Just like in real incidents, these professionals convened in tactical response teams and formulated their response collectively.


Findings
The exercises demonstrate that crisis responders do not just have to make sense of the crisis, but also of their own roles and actions. They raise and address three sensemaking questions: What is happening in this crisis? (i.e. situational sensemaking), Who am I in this crisis? (i.e. identity-oriented sensemaking) and How does it matter what I do? (i.e. action-oriented sensemaking).


Practical implications
Crisis preparation tends to focus on plans and systems that accelerate or improve the construction of a situational understanding, while this study suggests the need of more preparatory attention for crisis responders' roles and actions.


Originality/value
The research extends crisis sensemaking literature beyond the restricted focus on the incident itself by showing that responders are also trying to grasp their own role and how their actions matter when they are engaged in crisis response.

"Crisis Memorials: Balancing Renewal and Resilience" published on by Oxford University Press.

"SARS: A Crisis Analysis Case Study" published on by Oxford University Press.

The primary purpose of this research is to reflect on the current environmental crisis, which is framed in the context of two major problems faced by humankind today; namely, an unquestioned search for economic growth and an ecological crisis. Before writing this paper, a thorough bibliographic review was conducted. As a result, it is evident that the current environmental crisis is part of a crisis of the civilizing process to which humankind as a whole is subject. It is also observed that a solution to this crisis is not legal, scientific, or technological, but rather ethical and political in nature. In other words, it is linked to the ways and manners in which man should behave and assert his place in the world. It is only when this stated aspect is understood that one can come to think about the advent and establishment of a more humane relationship between people and our planet Earth. Therefore, this paper discusses concerns that stem from the problems which have arisen out of the relationship between man and nature, because it has been assumed to be a one-dimensional relationship – and this has led us to believe that we are owners and possessors. The findings of this research enable us to draw the conclusion that we can establish alternative ways to live and thrive in the world if we adopt a different world view, one that does not subjugate nature to capital value. ; El objetivo principal de esta investigación es reflexionar sobre la crisis ambiental contemporánea, la cual se inscribe en el contexto de dos problemas que padece la humanidad actualmente: 1) la búsqueda incuestionable del crecimiento económico y 2) la crisis ecológica. Para el propósito de este artículo se adoptó la revisión bibliográfica. Como resultado se observa que la crisis ambiental contemporánea hace parte de una crisis civilizatoria con la que se confronta la humanidad en su conjunto y que la salida a esta crisis no es de naturaleza jurídica ni tampoco de orden científico o tecnológico, sino que es de naturaleza ético-política, es decir, de las formas y las maneras del hombre conducirse y afirmarse en el mundo. Sólo si se entiende este aspecto así enunciado, podrá pensarse en el advenimiento y constitución de una relación más humana de los seres humanos con el planeta Tierra. Por lo tanto, las inquietudes que se expresan en este artículo parten de la problematización a la que da lugar la relación del hombre respecto de la naturaleza - ya que esta ha sido asumida unidimensionalmentey lo ha llevado a creerse dueño y poseedor. La investigación permite concluir que bajo una égida distinta a la del sojuzgamiento de la naturaleza por valorizar capital se pueden establecer formas alternativas de morar en y cultivar el mundo.

Karl Polanyi: Notes - "Democracy vs. Total Crisis", n. d. File contains two pages of Karl Polanyi's annotated typed notes on "Democracy vs. Total Crisis".

Somalia is the only country in the world with a nomad majority, in which pastoralism and a nomadic way of life still predominate. Basic thesis of the article is that nomads practise a rational strategy of survival, i.e. "safety first" and "risk aversion". This logic of survival is systematically ignored by the modernization concept of the Somali government (and international donors) which equates development with economic growth and solid bureaucratization. This failure is illuminated by a look at certain crises: (1) The crisis in the state's philosophy of development; (2) the crisis in the state's educational concept; (3) the crisis in sedentarization. The crisis areas reflect a crisis of acceptance by the nomadic population. Therefore, non-intervention should be preferred to intervention, and unavoidable interventions should be adjusted to the socio-cultural conditions and oriented by the needs of the population. (DÜI-Hns)

The article deals with the problems of labor market functioning under conditions of global financial and economic crisis. Extensive statistical material is analyzed. The focus is made on identifying the principal specifics of the crisis in terms of such socio-economic parameters of reproduction as employment, unemployment, structure of supply and demand in the labor market, prospects for innovative development, anti-crisis activities of governmental institutions.

El autor aborda en este artículo algunos de los problemas que aquejan a las democracias contemporáneas, tales como el sistema de representación política, la crisis por la que atraviesan los partidos y la disfunción política generada por la influencia de los medios masivos de comunicación. La solución a tales problemas apunta hacia una profundización democrática que, en todo caso, podría alcanzarse mediante la deliberación y con una mayor participación política de los ciudadanos. ; The author addresses some of the problems facing contemporary democracies, such asthe system of political representation, the crisis being experienced by theparties, and political dysfunction caused by the influence of mass media.The solution to these problems point to a deepening of democracy, in anycase, be achieved through deliberation and greater political participationof citizens.Keywords: political representation, parties, media, democracy,deliberation.

[Introduction] The euro crisis evolves out of the global financial crisis, which erupted with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Starting point of the euro crisis was the statement of the Greek government in autumn 2009 that budget deficit may be much higher than announce in the beginning of 2009. In early 2010 financial market expectations pointed in direction of possible Greek sovereign default. In May 2010 some secondary markets for government bonds began to dry up completely and the EU council agreed to a rescue plan for Greece. This plan could not dam up the concerns regarding the debt situation in Portugal and Ireland. During the ongoing crisis process these countries are supported by rescue plans (see Todev, Brazda, Laurinkari 2013). Rescue plans are not an instrument of the legal arrangement of the European Union or of the Eurozone. Therefore, new arrangement has had to be established since then. Moreover, the euro crisis is not only a sovereign debt crisis. It contains at least a banking crisis and macroeconomic crisis. All these parts are strongly connected. In the paper the main links are described. Furthermore, new legal arrangements and developments are presented to handle the sovereign debt, banking and macroeconomic crisis. In the beginning the changes deals with the sovereign debt crisis. Countries, which got support of other countries, had to accept changes in their public budget structure. To some extend the policy changes should help to solve reasons of the debt situation and of the macroeconomic crisis. In 2012 the EU council focused on the banking crisis, where the EU agreed to establish a banking union. The macroeconomic crisis is apparent by high unemployment rates and real GDP decreases. One main reason behind these characteristics is the lack of competitiveness of some economies. This point is addressed in the paper. At the end of the paper political aspects of the crisis politics should be mentioned. It is dealing with the income and wealth situation of some EU countries.