Title: Organising for future crises: the case of integrated risk management in French cities

Authors: Arjen Boin, Mathilde Gralepois

Addresses: Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. ' Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands

Abstract: Public leaders face a set of crisis management tasks that are not easy to fulfill. It becomes especially challenging in large cities, which bring together potentially dangerous technologies and large masses of people. Coping with an emerging crisis in this context is a daunting task, if only because of infrastructural bottle necks and a lack of available means. What answers do city governments produce? For a particular interesting development, we turn to a group of French large cities which have seen the emergence of a new form of risk management: the integrated risk institute. In this article, we briefly survey emerging developments and challenges in these cities and formulate questions for a research agenda on urban crisis management.

Keywords: urban crisis management; French cities; future crises; France; emergency management; integrated risk institute; risk management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEM.2006.010285

International Journal of Emergency Management, 2006 Vol.3 No.1, pp.91 - 97

Published online: 12 Jul 2006 *

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