We may take our access to clean water for granted but recent events in Sweden and Europe have shown that a loss of water supply due to contamination does occur and can have large negative effects on society both financially and health wise. These events may become more frequent as the climate changes. This study investigates different aspects of crisis management for drinking water supply in municipalities in Sweden. The data was collected in a questionnaire sent out to the municipalities as a web-survey. The questionnaire included questions about the municipality’s ability to handle a failure in the main water supply and if a crisis in the drinking water supply was included in their risk and vulnerability analysis (RSA). The overall response rate was 15 %. The majority of the municipalities answered that drinking water supply was included in their RSA. Most of the municipalities lacked the ability to connect to a reserve water source, and the majority of those who were able, could not do so within 24 hours. A municipality’s ability to connect to a reserve water source did not vary with population between small (<20 000) and semi large (>20 000<100 000). The study indicates that there are improvments regarding crisis preparedness in the RSA and the ability to connect to a reserve water source compared to older studies however it also indicates that some municipalities are still not well prepared in case their primary water source of drinking water can not be used.

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Crisis management simulation is important in training the next generation of surgeons. In this review, we highlight our experiences with the cavernous carotid injury model. We then delve into other crisis simulation models available for the neurosurgical specialty. The discussion focuses upon how these trainings can continue to evolve. Much work is yet to be done in this exciting arena and we present several avenues for future discovery. Simulation continues to be an important training tool for the surgical learner.

The dissertation is a multi-method study on current and common challenges to liberal democracy facing governments and societies on both sides of the Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on disaffection with democracy in Europe. It examines the factors that have led to disaffected publics in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Greece, by looking at political and economic developments that unfolded over the last decade including the Eurozone and Greek crisis, the Trump Presidency and the Brexit vote to leave the EU. By looking closely at these events, a number of factors are put in the forefront of analysis, such as globalization, European integration, domestic party politics and populism, and the rise of authoritarian politics. The dissertation draws evidence from a large pool of public opinion data on a number of issues relating to the quality of government and democracy, in-depth interviews with high-ranking officials and political actors in Brussels and Athens, discourse analysis of political statements and party manifestos, and employs literature underpinning the concepts applied in the research as analytical frameworks. Looking at the discontent relating to democracy in three particular contexts, the following insights can be drawn: public disaffection in the United States is primarily attributed to factors such as the indirect effects of globalization. However, further research shows that globalization has been more of a populist narrative taken out of its real context and consequences to garner further political support for populist leaders both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Public disaffection in United Kingdom is seemingly stemming from the perceived disadvantages of EU membership, and its connection to global economic forces. Hence anti-establishment politics, and nationalist populism turn out to be major factors contributing to disaffection and help explain voters’ attitudes both regarding the Brexit vote and the Trump Presidency. Finally, the Greek case sharply illustrates how all of these factors have been at play during the management of the Greek economic crisis adding to further delegitimization of the European project. This was on the one hand manifested by the EU’s turn to neoliberal economic policy and neoliberal globalization, austerity politics, and the dismantling of the welfare state following the IMF’s economic prescriptions. On the other hand, what makes Greece distinct is its particularly troubled past of adversarial politics pertaining to the country’s political system, state and reform capacity, and not least the special character of the relationship between citizens and the political class, which has been traditionally marked by low levels of trust towards political parties and national governments. In this context, both the effects of the economic crisis and crisis management across the national and supranational context, further contributed to the citizens’ disaffection with democracy in Greece. / 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z

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The purpose of this study was to examine crisis preparedness at Christian-affiliated institutions of higher education. Second, this study examined Christian-affiliated institutions of higher education presidents’ perspective of their institution’s ability to prepare for crises based upon the four critical indicators of organizational crisis preparedness as described by Zdziarski (2001): a) the types of crisis institutions prepare for, b) the phase of crisis prepared for, c) the systems in place to respond to crisis, and d) the stakeholders involved and considered in preparations. Implications from this study provided recommendations for crisis preparedness that are specific to Christian-affiliated colleges and universities. A total of (n=77) presidents of Christian-affiliated institutions of higher education completed the Campus Crisis Management Questionnaire. Overall, results indicated that presidents of Christian-affiliated colleges and universities perceived their institutions to be well-prepared to respond to campus crises. This study adds to the crisis preparedness literature in higher education on how smaller private, specialized institutions with limited resources prepares for crisis.

In the landscape of crisis management, the knowledge surrounding how an organization can effectively manage a crisis, and through resilience develop strategies that maintain their position as a thriving organization, is generally undisclosed. Depending on the industry in which the organization is active within, their strategies may differ. In the case of construction firms, this is an interesting and unexplored area which we have analyzed deeply.  One of the main issues in this topic is that although the development of strategies for an organization is a known and somewhat understood area, the implementation of strategies during crises situations and their direct implication on the organization as an entity and their constituents parts is largely uncovered.  Regarding the method, our research methodology is qualitative study with its research philosophy grounded in interpretivism.Through the qualitative approach, insights into subjects personal experience of handling crisis situations within their construction firms were gained, and a rich data which later could be used for the analysis.  The data consisted of individuals either employed within a construction firm or those who are working within an organization that specifically focuses on crisis management.Our findings were that the central themes of what crisis management strategies are most appropriate for construction firms are Preparedness & Proactivity, Containment & Damage limitation and Communication.  Through the implementation of these themes we have found that construction firms stand the best chance to navigate and thrive during a time of crisis.

Crisis are extremely difficult to predict and according to Curtin, Hayman and Husein (2005) this is a problem that worsen by the trend in the 1970s and 80s where companies developed managers to be specialists. One example of this trend could be that a finance director knows only about finance, likewise for the marketing director, the technology director and operations director who all have their specialist fields. This kind of approach will lead to gaps in the management structure, since a finance director who is driven by profits and earnings per share would most probably lose sight of the bigger picture which will prevent the chances of predicting any crisis (Curtin et al., 2005). This kind of thinking began to change in the 1990s and a new approach came into vogue where managers were produced to be far more rounded than they were previously, as a generalist (Curtin et al., 2005). Our purpose is to find out how crisis emerge in projects and investigate the role of emotion in crisis management. The qualitative method is best suited to fulfil our aim since we are interested in individual’s personal experiences and personal reflections related to crisis management. The reason for us not choosing the quantitative method is that we do not wish to measure or create statistical generalizations about crisis management, it is rather to describe the essence of crisis management and issues related to crisis management, also how crisis is perceived from organizations. We therefore performed interviews with respondents that were of interest for our purpose. With all the information and knowledge gathered throughout our research we believe that when it comes to the abilities of the project managers to predict and prevent crisis, it is correct that managers have different and perhaps better education than 30 years ago but when everything comes around it is still next to impossible to completely be able to prevent crisis. We came to this conclusion after done our research and realized that even though every project manager who has been involved in any crisis can not completely prevent the same crisis to happen again.

<p>Crisis are extremely difficult to predict and according to Curtin, Hayman and Husein (2005) this is a problem that worsen by the trend in the 1970s and 80s where companies developed managers to be specialists. One example of this trend could be that a finance</p><p>director knows only about finance, likewise for the marketing director, the technology director and operations director who all have their specialist fields. This kind of approach will lead to gaps in the management structure, since a finance director who is</p><p>driven by profits and earnings per share would most probably lose sight of the bigger picture which will prevent the chances of predicting any crisis (Curtin et al., 2005). This kind of thinking began to change in the 1990s and a new approach came into vogue</p><p>where managers were produced to be far more rounded than they were previously, as a generalist (Curtin et al., 2005). Our purpose is to find out how crisis emerge in projects and investigate the role of emotion in crisis management.</p><p>The qualitative method is best suited to fulfil our aim since we are interested in individual’s personal experiences and personal reflections related to crisis management. The reason for us not choosing the quantitative method is that we do not wish to measure or create statistical generalizations about crisis management, it is rather to describe the essence of crisis management and issues related to crisis management, also how crisis is perceived from organizations. We therefore performed interviews with respondents that were of interest for our purpose.</p><p>With all the information and knowledge gathered throughout our research we believe that when it comes to the abilities of the project managers to predict and prevent crisis, it is correct that managers have different and perhaps better education than 30 years ago</p><p>but when everything comes around it is still next to impossible to completely be able to prevent crisis. We came to this conclusion after done our research and realized that even though every project manager who has been involved in any crisis can not completely</p><p>prevent the same crisis to happen again.</p>

Darbo objektas – turizmo krizių valdymas. Tyrimo tikslas – išanalizuoti ir įvertinti Lietuvos išvykstamojo turizmo krizių valdymo situaciją. Uždaviniai: 1. Atskleisti darnaus vystimosi rodiklių stebėjimo svarbą turizmo krizių vertinimui. 2. Išanalizuoti turizmo krizės sampratą ir priežastis organizuoto turizmo vystimesi. 3. Sukurti turizmo krizių valdymo modelį. 4. Nustatyti Lietuvos kelionių agentūrų vadovų pasiruošimą valdyti turizmo krizes ir jų naudojamus krizės įveikimo metodus. Tyrimo hipotezės: 1. Lietuvos išvykstamojo turizmo įmonių ir padalinių vadovai yra pasirengę suvaldyti turizmo krizes. 2. Naudojami konkretūs turizmo krizių valdymo modeliai ir strategijos turizmo krizių įveikimui. Tyrimo aktualumas. Turizmo krizių valdymas Lietuvos mokslininkų yra labai mažai tyrinėtas. Dėl krizių patiriamos turizmo problemos sprendžiamos sunkiai Lietuvoje, nes nėra nei praktinių, nei teorinių žinių, kaip jas sėkmingai įveikti. Tyrimo metodai: 1. Mokslinės literatūros, statistinių duomenų ir teisinių dokumentų analizė. 2. Kokybinė turinio (content) analizė. Tyrimas buvo atliekamas taikant ekspertų apklausos metodą – pusiau struktūruoto interviu formą, apklausti 5 respondentai. Tyrimo empiriniams duomenims rinkti buvo parengta 13 klausimų. Klausimynas parengtas remiantis darbo teorinėje dalyje minimais darbais. Gautiems duomenims analizuoti buvo naudojama kokybinė turinio (content) analizė. Darbo sandara: darbas susideda iš 3 skyrių, 63 puslapių, 10 lentelių, 16 paveikslėlių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Work item - Lithuanian outbound tourism crisis management evaluation and analysis. The objective - tourism crisis management. Work tasks: 1. To analyze the conception of indicators in sustainable tourism development. 2. To analyze the concept of tourism crisis and causes for the organized tourism development. 3. To suggest tourism crisis management model. 4. To set Lithuanians travel agencies managers‘ ability to manage tourism crises and their usable methods to control the tourism crisis. The research hypothesis: 1. Lithuanian outbound tourism managers are prepared to manage tourism crises. 2. The specific model or strategy of tourism crisis management is used for dealing with the crisis of tourism. Relevance. The tourism crisis management of Lithuanian scientists are very little studied. There are neither practical nor theoretical training on how to tackle tourism crisis especially in Lithuania. The research methods: 1. The analyzsis of scientific literature, statistical data and legal documents. 2. The qualitative content analysis. The study was carried out by 5 experts in the survey method - semi-standardized interview form. The study of empirical data collection was developed of 13 questions. The questionnaire was based on the theoretical work referred to analyzed works. Organization: There are 3 sections, 63 pages, 10 tables, 16 fugures, 62 sources of literature and 1 appendix. The work is prepared using literature in Lithuanian and Eglish languages... [to full text]