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Resilience in Crisis Management at the Municipal Level: The Synne Storm in Norway
Author(s) -
Steen Riana,
Morsut Claudia
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.12178
Subject(s) - flood myth , resilience (materials science) , crisis management , storm , environmental resource management , event (particle physics) , environmental planning , psychological resilience , political science , process management , business , geography , psychology , environmental science , meteorology , social psychology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , law , thermodynamics
This paper focuses on the role resilience plays in flood crisis management at the municipal level. Drawing from crisis management and the resilience literature, we outline a conceptual framework for crisis management that incorporates resilience abilities, namely the ability to respond, monitor, anticipate, and learn. Then, through an in‐depth analysis of a flood event, provoked by the Synne storm in Norway in 2015, we explore the extent to which Eigersund municipality succeeded in managing the flood. We conclude by outlining the importance of resilience abilities to cope with learning and coordination challenges and by proposing further research endeavors.