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- Ek, Åsa, et al.
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Safety education at research facilities with radiation sources and short-term facility users : current design and practice and possibilities for improvement
- 2024
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Ingår i: Heliyon. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 2405-8440. ; 10:12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research facilities such as spallation sources and synchrotrons generate radiation for use in atomic-level or molecular-scale experiments. These facilities can be viewed as complex safety-critical systems. An important aspect of the safety management of such systems is the short safety education and training programme the users are required to undergo in order to gain facility access. As research on the topic is limited, this study aimed to increase the knowledge about current education design and practice using the perspectives of safety science and pedagogy. Study objectives were to identify preconditions that impact the safety education design, to describe current design and practice of the safety education, and to identify weaknesses and possibilities for improvement. Site visits with a total of 20 interviews were performed at three research facilities. The results show the need for sufficient resources to maintain learning activities for users, provide pedagogical continuing education for educators, and maintain safety culture-enhancing activities to meet the challenges of having large numbers of short-term facility users. Increased focus should be placed on safety-related competence needs and the mapping of these to match the competence of individual users. New thinking and innovation can benefit the design and provision of such education activities, based on both socio-technical system and system safety perspectives.
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- Eriksson, Kerstin, et al.
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“This community will grow” — little concern for future wildfires in a dry and increasingly hotter Swedish rural community
- 2024
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Ingår i: Regional Environmental Change. - : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. - 1436-3798 .- 1436-378X. ; 24:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased risk of wildfires is often highlighted in media coverage of climate change in the Nordic countries. How an increased risk is reflected in the concerns and adaptive measures within the most likely affected communities is nevertheless not known. This study investigates concerns and adaptation to wildfires in a rural community in south-eastern Sweden. The comparatively dry study area has a history of frequent but often low-consequence wildfires and is projected to experience Sweden’s largest increase in severe fire weather towards 2100. Through narratives, this study elucidates potential wildfire concerns in this area and motivations behind adaptation measures. The narratives are compared to a physical causal network extracted from the literature on fires and their consequences in the region. Residents foresee an increased wildfire risk but do not consider it a threat to the future well-being of the community. Forest owners and homeowners express low commitment in preventive or adaptive measures. Instead, contrasting the reality of the twentieth century, the fire service is currently considered to be responsible for both preventing and suppressing fires. This attitude is attributed to the lack of severe implications from the generally well-managed fires in the region. Actions for prevention and adaptation seem triggered by media attention or experience from real high-consequence events occurring elsewhere, rather than local wildfire occurrence or climate change projections. © The Author(s) 2024.
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- Hamza, Mo, et al.
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Futureless futures : Reflections on life in doomed places in Nordic countries
- 2024
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Across the scholarly and journalistic literature, an increasing sense of future uncertainty and prevailing sense of dread is being narrated. This unsettling sense of futurelessness seems to cut across scales in that globally unfolding menaces also shape lived experience locally in specific sites, where global risks intersect with local hazardousness of place. In this chapter, we reflect on how a set of communities facing different kinds of threatened futures have engaged with their predicament. Our cases are Lyngen in the Norwegian Arctic and Falsterbo and Kiruna in Sweden. Engaging these cases, we probe the complexities of decisions on planned relocation or staying in place. We also explore ideas on how living with the knowledge of a threatened future impacts senses of existential security and everyday life in the present, where literature on doom, slow calamity and futurelessness is also emerging. We take as our point of departure that capacities and vulnerabilities exist alongside one another in populations. This chapter concerns the insights that potentially futureless places can teach us about capacities to endure, and forms of existential insecurity in the face of doom.
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- Hamza, Mo, et al.
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Futureless futures : Reflections on life in doomed places in Nordic countries
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility. - : Taylor and Francis. - 9781032608983 - 9781040040386 ; , s. 117-133
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Across the scholarly and journalistic literature, an increasing sense of future uncertainty and prevailing sense of dread is being narrated. This unsettling sense of futurelessness seems to cut across scales in that globally unfolding menaces also shape lived experience locally in specific sites, where global risks intersect with local hazardousness of place. In this chapter, we reflect on how a set of communities facing different kinds of threatened futures have engaged with their predicament. Our cases are Lyngen in the Norwegian Arctic and Falsterbo and Kiruna in Sweden. Engaging these cases, we probe the complexities of decisions on planned relocation or staying in place. We also explore ideas on how living with the knowledge of a threatened future impacts senses of existential security and everyday life in the present, where literature on doom, slow calamity and futurelessness is also emerging. We take as our point of departure that capacities and vulnerabilities exist alongside one another in populations. This chapter concerns the insights that potentially futureless places can teach us about capacities to endure, and forms of existential insecurity in the face of doom.
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- Kvarnlöf, Linda, 1982-, et al.
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Filling the void : Rural disaster volunteerism during the Swedish wildfires of 2018
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. - : Elsevier BV. - 2212-4209. ; 105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the summer of 2018, both fire and rescue services and volunteers fought against the extensive wildfires that spread over the northern parts of Sweden. The challenges were many and one of the most obvious was the lack of resources provided by the state, both material and human. This lack of official resources, together with the long distances that characterize the rural northern parts of Sweden, have been highlighted in subsequent evaluations as one of the main reasons for the widely spread fires. The lack of official resources in itself can be understood as a consequence of several years of dismantling and centralization of the Swedish fire and rescue service. However, the responses from the local community were enormous. Local volunteers, spontaneous as well as organized, assisted in firefighting; in providing food and services; in offering shelter for evacuated, and many other things. In disaster research, volunteer activities have often been described as something that “fills the void” when official resources are scarce. This seems to be particularly true in rural contexts. This paper applies a critical perspective on rural disaster volunteerism by framing it as an expression of rural vulnerability and peripheralization: as something that is performed as a compensatory act in rural communities affected by social dismantling. In other words, both place and politics are central in understanding rural voluntary activity. Inspired by the theoretical concept geographies of voluntarism, this paper argues that people make sense of volunteer initiatives in relation to both the place where these activities take place and in relation to the power relations associated with this place. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore how rural disaster volunteerism intersects with structural conditions of rurality.
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- Petridou, Evangelia, 1972-, et al.
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Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship : A case study of Swedish local emergency management
- 2024
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Ingår i: Policy Studies Journal. - : John Wiley and Sons Inc. - 0190-292X .- 1541-0072. ; 52:1, s. 73-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we examine public policy change at the local level of governance in the aftermath of an extraordinary event. Using the case study of a Swedish municipality after the sweeping forest fire of 2014, we contend that policy entrepreneurship, like its market counterpart, may under certain conditions take on a wider range of behaviors that are not underpinned by the proactive quest for opportunities. Rather, a sense of urgency and necessity, professional norms, and some keen technical skills make for a different kind of entrepreneurship, which we label reactive policy entrepreneurship. © 2023 The Authors.
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- Vylund, Lotta, et al.
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Understanding Fire and Rescue Service Practices Through Problems and Problem-Solving Networks : An Analysis of a Critical Incident
- 2024
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Ingår i: Fire Technology. - : Springer. - 0015-2684 .- 1572-8099.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how the Fire and Rescue Service can better prepare for solving complex problems in emergencies by using the concept of problems and problem-solving networks. Primary and secondary data from an extensive fire incident were analysed, including semi-structured interviews and incident assessment reports. Complex problems that arise during emergencies can be challenging to define, and solutions can be difficult to identify. However, this study demonstrates that breaking down complex problems into sub-problems can facilitate the identification of what kind of problem-solving network is needed to be able to solve problems in emergencies. Overall, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the rationale behind problem-solving network in emergency situations and highlights the importance of relationships in problem-solving network to address complex problems during emergencies.
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- Eriksson, Kerstin
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Organisational learning without fire? : Risk analyses as a basis for developing crisis management capabilities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Safety Science. - : Elsevier B.V.. - 0925-7535 .- 1879-1042. ; 163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Risk analyses are seen as a vital tool for crisis prevention and developing capability to respond to future crises. In Sweden, all municipalities are required to perform risk and vulnerability analyses as a basis for their crisis management work. The aim of this paper is to study how and why a risk and vulnerability analysis can become a part of an organisational process for learning how to prevent and prepare for crises. This is done through a study of civil servants in Swedish municipalities and county administrative boards about how they develop and use risk and vulnerability analysis for creating a crisis management capability within the organisation. It is shown that the results from risk and vulnerability analyses normally are not transferred within or beyond the municipalities and that the learning within the organisation and within society is thus limited. © 2023 The Author(s)
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