Lindy Newlove-Eriksson

Lindy Newlove has a MA in Sociology from the University of Stockholm, International Graduate Program and is a doctoral student of the interdisciplinary Tema Institute at the University of Linköping, within the Department of Technology and Social Change, from which she is currently on leave. Lindy comes from Canada, where she holds a BA Honours in Sociology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She specialises in critical infrastructure, environmental and energy crises and has written on nuclear power and electricity outages. Lindy completed a study on the ice storm which paralysed Eastern Canada in 1998 and together with colleagues Eric Stern and Lina Svedin has written a book on the 1998 blackout of Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland Unplugged, 2000. Lindy has also worked in an editorial capacity, contributing to the publication of a conference report as well as a volume on Crisis management in Estonia, 1999. She has also written a study of an organisational accident in Crisis Management in a Transitional Society: The Latvian Experience, 2000. Lindy has also been responsible for CRISMART's research group in Lithuania and is co-editor, together with Stephanie Buus and Eric Stern of the volume on crisis management in Lithuania, Volume 18 (2005) Value Complexity in Crisis Management: The Lithuanian Transition.

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