Nicklas Guldåker
Senior Lecturer
Krishantering, hushåll och stormen Gudrun : Att analysera hushålls krishanteringsförmåga och sårbarheter
Author
Summary, in English
The aim of the thesis is to develop and test a theoretical framework for analyzing the crisis management capability and vulnerability of households, and external actors' interaction with and assistance to vulnerable households during severe emergencies and disasters.
The design of the theoretical framework including an analytical model for description and analysis of household crisis management capability and vulnerability departs from a hurricane-perspective, with a particular focus on the hurricane Gudrun. The theoretical framework draws on the concept of the household, concepts from actor-network theory (ANT) and time-geography. Concepts such as actor, actant, actor-network, relations, network stability, mobilization, immutable mobiles, projects, restrictions, pockets of local order etc, together provide an important basis for the analysis of household crisis management capability and vulnerability.
Based on an analysis of interviews with 41 affected members of households and focus group interviews with 30 municipal officials, a discussion of what constitutes internal and external crisis management capability from a household perspective, is presented.
The thesis results in a theoretical framework and a model useful for analysis of household management capability and vulnerability during other severe emergencies than those caused by hurricanes. In this way, the thesis provides a contribution to the development of a more general analytical model related to household crisis management capability and vulnerability.
The thesis also generates significant and useful results and strategies involving both household crisis management capability and the capability of external societal actors’ capability to interact with and support vulnerable households during severe crises and disasters.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
Publishing year
2009
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Meddelanden från Lunds universitets geografiska institution. Avhandlingar
Volume
185
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Human Geography
Keywords
- Household
- Actor-network theory
- Hurricane Gudrun
- Crisis management
- Vulnerability
- Crisis management capability
- Time-geography
- Krishantering
- Stormen Gudrun
- Krishanteringsförmåga
- Hushåll
- Aktör-nätverksteorin
- Sårbarhet
- Tidsgeografi
Status
Published
Project
- FRIVA
- Frequency and scope of nature-related crises (2007-2010) (within FRIVA II)
- Perspectives on vulnerability and need for help in the management of crises (within FRIVA II)
Research group
- LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management
Supervisor
- Per Olof Hallin
- Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0346-6787
- ISBN: 978-91-976521-6-2
Defence date
27 November 2009
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Room F111- Världen, Geocentrum byggnad I, Sölvegaten 10, Lund
Opponent
- Martin Gren (Associate Professor)