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AbstractThe concepts of communication and trust play a central role in crisis management. There is a complex nexus between communication and trust building in crisis management, as different activities and processes result in communication and trust building in crisis management. This article argues that communication and trust are two sides of the same crisis management coin: each complements the other. To this end, we reflected on how crisis communication and trust factors could be a tool to amplify or attenuate the level of attention given to creeping crises and how such factors could influence creeping crisis management difficulties. We then proposed a crisis management typology to aid crisis managers in managing the difficulties associated with creeping crises.

"Antimicrobial Resistance as a Global Health Crisis" published on by Oxford University Press.

1. The early evolution of the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad Oblast / Timur Gareev -- 2. The Cepruss pulp and paper mill : complex crisis management / Eugene Krasnov -- 3. Child welfare in the Kaliningrad region : production of a creeping crisis / Anna Karpenko -- 4. Building a mosque in Kaliningrad / Anna Karpenko -- 5. The Curonian spit : systemic crisis of a national park / Elena Novova and Artem Shibin.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Translations -- Maps of the Baltic Sea Region and Kaliningrad Oblast -- Introduction: Kaliningrad: Managing Evolving Crisis Challenges -- 1 The Early Evolution of the Special Economic Zone in Kaliningrad Oblast -- 2 The Cepruss Pulp and Paper Mill: Complex Crisis Management -- 3 Child Welfare in the Kaliningrad Region: Production of a Creeping Crisis -- 4 Building a Mosque in Kaliningrad -- 5 The Curonian Spit: Systemic Crisis of a National Park -- Conclusion -- Annex -- Index.

In this article, conditions of creeping crises and priorities of environmental policy in the Samara region (Russia) are discussed from a crisis management perspective. Inefficiency of the existing policy is precipitated to a substantial extent by the underlying normative approach, which is more focused on environmental quality than on human health issues. It is therefore argued that this approach should be replaced by an integrated policy strategy including risk management. This strategy implies human health rather than environmental quality standards as key criteria for setting crisis policy priorities. The implications for crisis preparation and training are discussed within a framework of systemic crisis management.

Marine plastic litter and microplastics pollution is a global governance problem with unknown and potentially dire consequences. Efforts to promote individual‐centered solutions to the problem are increasingly necessary but are insufficient to tackle the root causes of the problem. Therefore, a concerted policy response at the global level is imperative. The success of such efforts necessarily depends on the way in which the problem is framed and understood, including its degree of urgency. This paper engages with this problem by considering the nature of the issue in light of the crisis term and argues that the global problem of marine litter may be more productively considered a "creeping crisis" given the complexity, scope, and spatio‐temporally fragmented nature of the problem.

The G20 summit in London offers an opportunity for world leaders to prevent a continued slide towards protectionism. Yet the summit is already at risk of ending in failure as expectations run too high. The agenda is already far too wide and cover areas characterized by sharp differences of opinion rather than an emerging consensus. Individual members have also thrown in additional wishes for what the summit should achieve. Furthermore, G20 rhetoric is ingrained in global governance romanticism, but the naive hopes of building a new Bretton Woods system will meet the hard realities of global economic co-operation. This Policy Brief is concerned with what should be the relevant trade agenda for the G20. At the summit in Washington, D.C. last autumn, the G20 agreed that no country should impose new barriers to trade. G20 leaders also instructed their trade ministers to agree on a headline deal for Doha Round before the end of 2008. However, nothing has happened in the Doha Round since the last G20 summit, and it took only a few days until a G20 country had imposed new trade barriers. Since November last year, 17 of the G20 members have imposed protectionist measures. Governments have not responded to the economic crisis with massive protectionist measures. It is rather creeping protectionism that has characterized recent trade policies. However, as the crisis deepens countries are likely to increase protectionism. The chief task now is to prevent such a development, in particular the risk of escalating tit-for-tat protectionism. This Policy Brief sets out a six-point agenda to contain protectionist threats.

Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a 'quiet Chernobyl' and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the region's decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history

This paper evaluates the impact of the multinational intellectual emigration crisis, during the period 1975‐ 1994, on reconstruction policy implications and the future development of Lebanon. It analyses fundamental issues that are relevant to the study of the Lebanese brain drain crisis. The current research study presents a threefold analysis. The first section discusses a socio‐demographic trend analysis of Lebanese emigrants during the period 1975‐ 1994. In the second section, renewed brain influx policy implications and conditions are identified and evaluated through applying the Contingency Typology Simulation Heuristic approach to crisis networking and the Risk Path Analysis Model of creeping crisis multi‐level contingency schema in the context of the multinational intellectual emigration stages. Finally, the author identifies a work‐in‐progress research agenda, providing directions for future research, within the area of systems evolution, intellectual emigration and politics of multinational brain drain.

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that a new and unforeseen threat easily outmatched political-administrative systems currently in place. Our commentary on the Italian case contributes to the call for public administration scholars to incorporate crisis management into the main research agendas of the field. We focus on regulatory capacity that is needed to tackle the effects of COVID-19. Under crisis conditions of radical urgency and uncertainty, the Italian regulatory policy has been based on temporary, fast-track procedures. The latter have been regularly applied when Italian governments confront with natural disasters and prompt action is ensured by a repertoire of extraordinary measures running in parallel to burdensome ordinary procedures. We discuss the implications of this "two-track" approach for governance capacity and legitimacy. We also extrapolate existing trends and engage with projection of future developments.