The Flood Crisis in Germany 2013
- In 2013, large floods affected Germany heavily. The natural disaster transcended jurisdictional and organisational boundaries, necessitating a coordinative effort by disaster relief forces and their administrative and political leadership. In the aftermath, politicians and experts praised the improvement of the German system of crisis management, also in direct comparison with the response to the last German “flood of the century” of 2002. This chapter takes a public policy and organisational perspective to analyse the German disaster relief governance throughout all four crisis management phases. By highlighting the central features of the German governance arrangements and the main organisational changes implemented in reaction to the previous flood in 2002, we find that Whole-of-Government approaches are increasingly used by the federal and Länder government.
Author details: | Werner JannORCiDGND, Bastian JantzGND, Alexander Kuehne, Lena Schulze-GabrechtenGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92303-1_4 |
ISBN: | 978-3-319-92303-1 |
ISBN: | 978-3-319-92302-4 |
Title of parent work (English): | Societal Security and Crisis Management |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publishing: | Cham |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/07/26 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2021/05/20 |
Number of pages: | 19 |
First page: | 75 |
Last Page: | 93 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |