Manage everything or anything? Possible ways towards generic emergency management capability
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Summary, in English
As a background, the paper briefly explores the concept of generic capability - What is it? How can it be understood? How can it be developed? - and relates it to the interplay between specifics and generalities. The paper outlines examples of factors that may contribute to generic capabilities represented in the safety and emergency management literature. From the traditions of continuity management, resilience engineering and high reliability organizations examples are given and discussed in terms of focus on the specific and/or the general. The paper also discusses scenario-based learning and the perspective of semantic hierarchies, which explains how a move to more abstract concepts, encompassing the main meaning of more concrete instances, may support the development of generic capability. Conclusions regarding suggestions for practice and needs for further research are presented.
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Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of TIEMS annual conference
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Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
The International Emergency Management Society
Ämne
- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Nyckelord
- Emergency management
- generic capability
- all-hazards approach
- learning
- training
Conference name
21st TIEMS Annual Conference, 2014
Conference date
2014-10-20 - 2014-10-23
Conference place
Niigata, Japan
Status
Published