Program 21 - 23 September

Jerry Määttä, Jenny Sunesson, Mehreen Murtaza and Todd Lowery – all four combining art and academia – discuss topics such as how art can contribute to the way we understand and imagine the future.
Conference closing session 17.00-17.30 Jörgen Sparf and Rico Kongsager

- Community Knowledge Adoption Through Social Media: Reconstructing Saint-Martin After Hurricane Irma
 -Cross-country use of participatory research methods in practice to enhance inclusive decision making

- When resources aren't enough: Rural (disaster) volunteerism as a compensatory act 
- Delaware Public Libraries in Times of COVID-19. How branch libraries in Sussex County adapted their programming to support their communities
- A geospatial web app to localize disaster risk management through open-source data collection, sharing, and mapping 
- Crisis volunteerism during the Covid-19 Crisis - exploring adaptation processes 

- Situating ‘Verano Boricua’ Within Puerto Rico’s Financial Debt Crisis and Hurricane Maria Recovery Process
-- Cycles of Disasters, Long-term Recovery, and Identity: How Biloxi’s Recovery from Hurricane Katrina Started in 1969

- Harmonization of Terminology for Emergency Management
- Using quantitative data effectively to manage crises
- Dosed access to the common operational picture
- Future Full-Scale Digital Exercise for Emergency Management
- SCATTER (Strategische Patientenverlegung - Strategical transfer of patients) A computer-based simulation of inter-hospital transfer of critically ill patients

- Disasters as Socionatural Displacements: time, materiality and affect
- Towards a Geopoetics of Disaster: The Place of Glissant in Postcolonial Disaster Studies
- Disasters as Betrayal
- Return to Surf: Re-understanding the Sea among Local Surfers in Post-Tsunami Settings

- Descriptive Study of the Agility and Resilience of the Canadian Humanitarian Aid Sector in the Time of COVID-19
- Explaining Covid-19 crisis response strategies from a Resource Based View
- Crisis Management, Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Management in Dealing with the Migrant and Refugee Crisis 2015/16
- What is trust in a pandemic? Exploring the role of trust in technology, data, and good governance as part of pandemic response
- Organizational competences for innovation and resilience: Insights from a research project on crisis management during Covid19 in five European countries

- Measuring Performance in Civil Contingency Management
- Novel Business Models, Digitalization and AI in Public-Private Critical Infrastructure Financialization: An Innovative Crisis Trinity?
- From tyche to Wild Cards: Ancient Inspirations for Coping with the Unexpected
- Contingency and the inadequacy of cognitive understanding of threats

- Framing justice considerations within flood risk management
- Local innovations in flood hazard risk management in the past 10 years: the potential of upscaling niche developments to reduce institutional vulnerability in Austria
- Flash flood risk management in Malloa (Central Chile) during the 29-31 January 2021 precipitations: insights on social and institutional vulnerabilities
- An institutional vulnerability perspective on Flood Disaster Risk Management in Ghana
- Hazard classification and flood risk for the Greek part of Arda River

- The shortcomings of the regulatory state and its corporate actors in allocating resident physicians in rural areas in Germany
- Securitization and Economization of hospitals – structural aspects of individual health care and their challenges
- Crisis vulnerability assessment tool considering human and technological structures as well as social support through private relations and state actors

- Monitoring population needs and wellbeing using panel studies
- The psychological impact of COVID-19 in Italy through the voices of experts
- Personal resilience: measuring psychological and biological stress during military conscription in the period of COVID-19 outbreak

- The social (trans-)formation of risks in humanitarian project networks in South Sudan
- Reducing volcanic risk: who, how and for what? Anthropological approach to the perspectives of Mapuche communities in southern Chile
- Organisational narratives of past events and their implications for disaster preparation in civil protection and emergency management
- Towards a richer understanding of Kosi river floods in Bihar, India: Deploying anthropological perspective

- Forest fires and landscape identity - values, meanings and engagement in local communities
- After the fire? Practices and perceptions of wildfire risk education in Portugal
- From vulnerability to transformation of gender role: Photo voice experience of Sundarbans’ women amidst climate change

- Methodology, Objectivity and Cultural Specificity in Multimethod Disaster Studies: Insights from the 2017 Bihar Floods Study
- Causal modelling of knowing how to prepare: A concept for a ‘strategic Bayesian operations room’ exercise
- How to get a feel for the (unknown) real? – Emergency exercises and the production of synthetic experience

- Emergency Response Organization Resilience: Identifying Factors for Success
- Coordinating internal crisis management in the event of a serious incident - Strategic level in higher education institutions
- Learning by doing and reflecting – the learning process of Swedish exercise organizers
- Enhancing risk governance by addressing key risk communication barriers during the prevention and preparedness phase in South Tyrol (Italy)

RCR Simulation Lab is a laboratory at Mid Sweden University in Östersund where it is possible to simulate any environment or situation.