... design is used to study empirically two countries with very different traditions when it comes to political-administrative institutions: Argentina and Sweden. Findings As expected, the institutional foundations of DRR policy in Sweden are shown to be more consistent and stable than in Argentina...

... Social learning Education Climate change adaptation Risk reduction Risk management Climate change Sweden The need to use knowledge and education in efforts to build resilience against natural hazards has been highlighted in UN documents like the “Yokohama strategy for a safer world (1994...

...Anna Olofsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the Swedish mass media constructed Sweden and Swedes during the first days after the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles from four...

... of Sweden has been affected by several events where the local crisis management ability has been tested, and issues of “lessons learned” have come into focus. These events include severe storms in 2005 and 2007, which made great demands on crisis management capacity over a period of up to eight weeks...

... at the accident scene, but avoid this as it leads to uncertainty and asymmetries and because of a lack of incentives. However, simpler forms of collaboration may be realistic in the organisation of everyday work at accident scenes. Accidents Emergency services Sweden This article deals...

...=385) from the ambulance service, the police force, and the rescue services in Sweden. A questionnaire was operationalised from the codes and categories of the previously developed model. Findings The study showed that the most important factors in explaining the outcome of complex rescue...

...; and that the two key dimensions of the model ‐ sense of personal meaningfulness and societal commitment ‐ account for the differences. Suggests actions to be taken by the Swedish authorities. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Disaster planning Surveys Sweden The role of the public in community emergency...