Contemporary societies are increasingly crisis-prone, and crises
have profound implications for the rapidly changing political,
economic, and social landscape. Crises pose major challenges to
governments, communities, leaders, and organizations. The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis provides a comprehensive overview
of the rapidly emerging and evolving field of crisis studies and
explores its connection to several relevant neighboring fields of
knowledge. Crises are complex, unfold in diverse political and
socio-technical contexts, and must be studied and understood from
multiple angles and disciplinary perspectives. This Encyclopedia
brings together contributions by experts from political science,
public administration, management, international relations, public
health, sociology, economics, media and mass communications, the
law, and many other fields to explore important theoretical,
methodological, empirical, and practical issues related to crisis
and crisis management. Articles focus on concepts (crisis as well
as closely related concepts such as emergency, disaster,
resilience, security etc.), contingencies (natural hazards, major
accidents, pandemics, terrorism, social and political conflict
among many others), historical and contemporary cases, classic and
cutting edge research methods, different "phases" of the
crisis/emergency management cycle, as well as documenting a wide
range of pitfalls and good practices that can help to forewarn and
forearm current and future crisis managers. The 84 essays in this
Encyclopedia fall into six main categories: Theory, Concepts,
Metatheory and Methodology, Crisis Governance and Regional
Perspectives, Bridging Gaps, and Cases & the Evolving
Socio-Technical Context. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis
is a key reference for anyone involved in the study, research, or
practice of crisis and emergency analysis and management.
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