Risk, interest groups and the definition of crisis: the case of volcanic ash

Hutter, Bridget M.; Lloyd-Bostock, Sally

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12024

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“…It caused an unprecedented mobility crisis due to an air space closure and aviation standstill of a full week. It has been well studied, but not from a transboundary perspective with a specific focus on the EU's role (Tindall, 2010;Alemanno, 2011;Brannigan, 2011;Budd et al, 2011;Macrae, 2011;O'Regan, 2011;Lee and Preston, 2012;Alexander, 2013;Christensen et al, 2013;Hutter and Lloyd-Bostock, 2013;Nohrstedt, 2013;Parker, 2014). Whereas most other studies of the Eyjafjallaji:ikull crisis focus on preventing the next volcanic ash crisis, we are particularly interested in the role that the EU played in facilitating a transboundary response.…”

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Exploring the EU’s Role as Transboundary Crisis Manager: The Facilitation of Sense-Making during the Ash Crisis

Kuipers¹,

Boin²

2015

European Civil Security Governance

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Exploring the EU’s Role as Transboundary Crisis Manager: The Facilitation of Sense-Making during the Ash Crisis

Kuipers¹,

Boin²

2015

European Civil Security Governance

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“…This problem can become particularly acute among public private entities” (Ansell et al, p. 199). For instance, during the volcanic ash crisis, airlines were desperate to resume flying, whereas manufacturers had no interest in assuming liabilities by providing the little information they had available on how modern aircraft engines would react to ash particles (Hutter and Lloyd‐Bostock ). Meanwhile, national governments did not have a sound juridical basis for authoritative coordinated decision‐making on aviation safety (Alemanno, ; O'Regan, ).…”

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Lessons from the MH17 transboundary disaster investigation

Kuipers

Verolme

Muller

2020

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that had departed a few hours before from Amsterdam airport in the Netherlands was shot down near Donetsk in Ukraine with 298 people on board. None of them survived the crash. The Dutch government soon called for an independent investigation into the causes of the crash. The conditions for such an investigation were highly complex. The circumstances of the crash indicated criminal intent, and rumours were that the plane was shot from the sky. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) stipulates in its Annex 13 that an accident investigation needs to include the country where the crash took place (State of Occurrence), the State of Registry of the aircraft, the State of the Operator of the aircraft (the airline) and the State of the manufacturer of the aircraft. The Netherlands represented none of these states, but the majority of victims were Dutch citizens. The authorities of Ukraine, where the plane crashed, soon asked the Dutch Safety Board to take the lead in the investigation since the Dutch had established capacity to conduct such an investigation, and the Ukraine government was involved in a violent conflict with Russian separatists. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Abstract Transboundary crises, incidents and disasters, such as chemical spills, airplane crashes and critical infrastructure breakdowns, involving multiple levels and domains of governance pose a particular set of challenges. These challenges also pertain to the investigation and learning phase of a crisis. We study a typical transboundary case: the crash of a Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), with 298 people on board from a variety of nationalities but the majority from the Netherlands, that crashed in Ukraine in a conflict zone near the Russian border. The MH17 case contains valuable lessons on transboundary disaster investigations. The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) took the lead of the international independent investigation into the causes of the crash.With an international group of stakeholders, the DSB investigated a crash that resulted from a bilateral conflict, requiring the support from Ukraine's powerful neighbour Russia that meanwhile stood accused of withholding evidence and supporting Ukrainian separatists. Retrieving evidence and researching the causality of the crash was no easy task. If countries wish to follow their ambition to learn from accidents in order to "prevent the past repeated," they may more often need to investigate such transboundary cases. This case study probes into how challenges that are typical to transboundary crises affected the accident investigation into the MH17 disaster.We search for lessons on transboundary accident investigation that transcend the boundaries of this single case. Such lessons may prove invaluable for l...

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“…The time line of the eruption and its impact has been clearly documented elsewhere (Sammonds et al, 2010, Petersen, 2010, Schumann et al, 2010 including the tele-conferences held by the CAA during April with the various actors in Table 1. The ash cloud event (referred to as E15 by the CAA as noted in Hutter and Lloyd-Bostock, 2013) is a useful candidate for analysis using ANT as at its heart is the negotiation of the meaning of risk and safety within a physical entity, the airspace. The airspace is the focus of the actor network in Figure 2 as this is the physical and conceptual space within which the actions of all the actors are played out.…”

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‘Riskscapes’ as a heuristic tool for understanding environmental risks: The Eyjafjallajokull volcanic ash cloud of April 2010

Inkpen

2016

Risk Manag

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This paper looks at the 2010 ash cloud event associated with eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland through the lens of actor network theory. Using this theory the shifting assignment of responsibility for the impact of the ash cloud can be traced amongst the various actors involved in the network focus on UK airspace. Mapping the relations between actors, in terms of their nature and strength, and how these change as the event unfolded can help to analyse the changing power relations and activation of relations to align the network. Understanding the activation of such links under the stress of an extreme environmental event and the network alignment it precipitates could have important implications for managing environmental risks.

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Risk, interest groups and the definition of crisis: the case of volcanic ash

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Exploring the EU’s Role as Transboundary Crisis Manager: The Facilitation of Sense-Making during the Ash Crisis

Exploring the EU’s Role as Transboundary Crisis Manager: The Facilitation of Sense-Making during the Ash Crisis

Lessons from the MH17 transboundary disaster investigation

‘Riskscapes’ as a heuristic tool for understanding environmental risks: The Eyjafjallajokull volcanic ash cloud of April 2010

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