Crisis Management in the Twenty-First Century: “Unthinkable” Events in “Inconceivable” Contexts

“Unbelievable,” “unthinkable,” “inconceivable”: the twenty-first century opens a new era in the field of risk and crisis management. Many of the major recent crises, including the unconventional 9/11 terrorist attacks; the swift worldwide contamination by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, “...

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Main Author: Lagadec, Patrick
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Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122654/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_30
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7122654 2023-05-15T15:34:21+02:00 Crisis Management in the Twenty-First Century: “Unthinkable” Events in “Inconceivable” Contexts Lagadec, Patrick 2007 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122654/ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_30 en eng http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122654/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_30 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Article Text 2007 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_30 2020-04-12T00:33:56Z “Unbelievable,” “unthinkable,” “inconceivable”: the twenty-first century opens a new era in the field of risk and crisis management. Many of the major recent crises, including the unconventional 9/11 terrorist attacks; the swift worldwide contamination by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, “mad cow disease”), SARS virus, or avian flu; continental blackouts occurring within a few seconds, continent-wide effects of a tsunami in unstable geopolitical zones; and Hurricane Katrina seem to differ fundamentally from the seminal cases that gave birth to disaster research in the 1950s and the 1960s (specific floods, hurricanes, earthquakes) and the crisis management studies in the 1980s (e.g., the Tylenol tampering). The trend seems to be accelerating, so that crises today are increasingly global, intertwined, and “non-textbook” events. Text Avian flu PubMed Central (PMC) 489 507
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