The 2003 heat wave killed nearly 15,000 people in France. It was a stealth killer. "We did not notice anything", as the Minister of Health declared to the Parliamentary Commission. It is of crucial importance to understand the keys to this collective failure, which has much in common with the...

The object of this article is to give an idea of crisis management in France. I will look at two principal axes: firstly, a simplified outline of the system as it has evolved over the years and with regard to the major changes it is undergoing today; secondly, an overview of the efforts recently...

how the Rapid Reflection Force concept – described in CRJ in 2006 – has now proved itself as a pivotal tool for EDF's senior management when they are confronted with risks and crises

Over the edge of the world Magellan utilised novel tactics to master a great ocean and overcome a sea of ignorance. Patrick Lagadec contends that we are faced with similar challenges today, and need a new cosmology to face 21st Century crises

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The nature of major crises has dramatically evolved over the past fewyears: Megcrises become the name of the game. The goal of this contribution is to capture the evolving notion of crisis, and to prepare new references to deal with the new crisis landscapes. The first section aims at building a...

Le cyclone Katrina a donné lieu, notamment, à trois grandes enquêtes : Chambre des Représentants, Maison-Blanche, Sénat. Nous proposons ici un premier travail sur le rapport de la Chambre des Représentants. Comme précédemment, sur d'autres productions de commissions d'enquête, le...

Le cyclone Katrina a donné lieu, notamment, à trois grandes enquêtes : Chambre des Représentants , Maison-Blanche, Sénat. Nous proposons ici un deuxième travail sur le rapport de la Maison-Blanche. Comme précédemment, sur d'autres productions de commissions d'enquête, le principe est de...

Crises in the 21st century differ—structurally— from those we had to deal with in the last century. Those were traditionally defined and handled as a combination of “threat, urgency and uncertainty”. Today, they are better described in terms of a destruction of vital references and a...

Les bouleversements enregistrés sur le front des crises majeures appellent un réexamen rapide de nos capacités de « gestion de crise » et à des progrès décisifs en matière de pilotage. Cette contribution vise à : 1°) Renseigner le contexte multiforme et instable dans lequel penser et...