Small-State Crisis Management: The Icelandic Way

Ásthildur Elva Bernharðsdóttir & Lina Svedin (2004)

This volume provides an institutional overview of Icelandic crisis management and detailed studies of three national crisis cases: the 2000 earthquakes in southern Iceland, the response by Iceland to a proposal by the European Commission to ban fishmeal in animal feed in 2000, and the 1997 stranding of the cargo vessel Vikartindur on the south shore of Iceland. Each case study is written by two local experts and is structured according to the cognitive-institutional research approach developed in this multi-year, cross-national study program. The volume’s concluding chapter highlights prominent themes such as crisis communication, public and private crisis cooperation, and learning.  Contributors to the volume are scholars of political science, social work, psychology, and environmental affairs. 

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