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Preparing for Creeping Crises: The Case of the Samara Region
Author(s) -
Porfiriev Boris
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5973.00142
Subject(s) - samara , inefficiency , normative , human health , crisis management , environmental planning , business , quality (philosophy) , perspective (graphical) , environmental resource management , political science , economics , law , environmental health , environmental science , market economy , medicine , ecology , biology , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science
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.