Policy framing and learning the lessons from the UK's foot and mouth disease crisis
The 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic cost over £8 billion and wreaked havoc upon the British countryside. The paper examines the institutional response to the crisis and the subsequent inquiries. Drawing on the 'garbage-can model' of organisational choice and ideas of 'policy framing', it argues that the institutional response to FMD was tightly focused on agricultural interests. Subsequently, a compartmentalised approach to lesson learning has been partial in its coverage. The result is that important lessons, of a more holistic and integrated nature, have been overlooked despite the replacement of the Ministry of Agriculture with a new Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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2004
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Authors: | Ward, Neil ; Donaldson, Andrew ; Lowe, Philip |
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Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. - Pion Ltd, London, ISSN 1472-3425. - Vol. 22.2004, 2, p. 291-306
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Pion Ltd, London |
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