Sweden’s Capacity to Prepare and Respond to a Terrorist Attack on Rail-Bound Traffic – Promising Practices and Obstacles to Inter-Organizational Collaboration

DOI

10.2991/jrarc.2015.5.4.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Crisis response, terrorism, rail-bound traffic, networks, crisis management actors

Abstract

This article takes an interest in evolving collaborative practices in crises caused by terrorism targeting rail-bound traffic. Sweden provides the empirical focus, by examining current preparedness processes, this article offers an important perspective on inter-organizational collaboration; that is, the perspective of the involved actors themselves. This study relies on 20 interviews with key actors in the response system and rail bound traffic actors.This article combines insights from the literature on governance with the research on disasters and crises. Promising practices and obstacles to inter-organizational collaboration are identified and analyzed.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Veronica Strandh
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/12/31
TI  - Sweden’s Capacity to Prepare and Respond to a Terrorist Attack on Rail-Bound Traffic – Promising Practices and Obstacles to Inter-Organizational Collaboration
JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
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SN  - 2210-8505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrarc.2015.5.4.2
DO  - 10.2991/jrarc.2015.5.4.2
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