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AFTER FUKUSHIMA: REFLECTIONS ON RISK AND INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING IN AN ERA OF MEGA‐CRISES
Author(s) -
't HART PAUL
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/padm.12021
Subject(s) - political science , risk management , key (lock) , political economy , public administration , sociology , management , economics , computer security , computer science
Triggered by the recent inquiries into the Fukushima nuclear disaster, this article reflects on the challenges of developing and operating risk regulation and crisis management regimes in an era of highly complex and tightly interconnected socio‐technical systems. These challenges are not just technical and professional but fundamentally institutional and cultural. The article identifies three key paradoxes and challenges of contemporary risk and crisis management, signals a range of recurrent problems in governments' efforts to cope with these challenges, problematizes current patterns of societal learning from crises, and sketches an agenda for public administration research in this area.