Emerging risks and preparedness

Key Note Speaker Associate Professor Nina Blom Andersen Head of research at the Disaster and Risk Management Program University College Copenhagen

Emerging risks and preparedness
Presentation at the 9th SRA-E Nordic annual conference Nordics, Baltics and the Arctic in Transition Uncertainties and Opportunities for Risk Analysis

Citizen preparedness has gained increasing prominence on political agendas in recent years and contemporary Nordic preparedness policies hold a growing emphasis on individual responsibility within emergency management, framing this responsibility as an active state of awareness and readiness.

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have e.g. distributed nationwide information leaflets recommending concrete preparedness  measures. This keynote builds on a Norwegian/Danish study of the policy implications of this approach in times with emerging risks and covers both the variations and similarities between the three Nordic countries.