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For the people in the Early Modern Age, famines were regularly recurring phenomena. So not less than eight of these crises happened in the areas of Lower Saxony between 1690 and 1750, which had a lasting impact on various aspects of life for the contemporaries. Therefore topics of different historical subdisciplines like economic, social, cultural and environmental history are dealt with in this dissertation. Thus, this thesis aims to bridge the gap between climatically and socially determined patterns of hunger. With the help of the concept of vulnerability it is shown that hunger crises can neither be ascribed to natural processes nor human operations exclusively. In fact they were the outcome of a chain of human-nature-interactions and were perceived as such by the contemporaries. A further emphasis of this book is put on the examination of contemporary coping strategies. The hereby worked out explanatory and interpretive models proved to be determining how the contemporaries tried to cope with hunger on a personal and joint level. Regarding the latter it is shown that famines played a decisive role in the consolidation of leadership in the Early Modern Age. Because of their regular recurrence they worked as focal points of the negotiation of sovereignity between authorities and subjects more than any other crisis situation in this process. Hungersnöte und Teuerungen waren für die Menschen der Frühen Neuzeit regelmäßig wiederkehrende Phänomene. So ereigneten sich zwischen 1690 und 1750 nicht weniger als acht derartige Krisen im niedersächsischen Raum, welche sich umfassend auf verschiedene Lebensbereiche der Zeitgenossen auswirkten, weshalb Themen unterschiedlicher historischer Subdisziplinen wie der Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Kultur- und Umweltgeschichte in dieser Arbeit behandelt werden. Dieses Buch versteht sich dabei als ein Beitrag zur Überwindung der Frontstellung von klima- und sozialdeterministischen Hungermodellen. Mithilfe des Konzeptes der Vulnerabilität wird dargestellt, dass sich Hungerkrisen weder rein auf natürliche Prozesse noch rein auf das menschliche Agieren zurückführen lassen. Vielmehr waren sie das Produkt einer Kette von Mensch-Natur-Interaktionen und wurden von den Zeitgenossen auch so wahrgenommen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt auf der Untersuchung zeitgenössischer Bewältigungsstrategien. Die herausgearbeiteten Erklärungs- und Deutungsmuster erweisen sich dabei als bestimmend dafür, wie die Zeitgenossen auf persönlicher und gemeinschaftlicher Ebene versuchten, die Krisen abzuwenden. Hinsichtlich letzterem zeigt sich, dass Teuerungen im Herrschaftsverdichtungsprozess der Frühen Neuzeit eine besondere Rolle besaßen. Sie dienten aufgrund ihrer regelmäßigen Wiederkehr stärker als andere Krisensituationen als Kristallisationspunkte des "Aushandelns von Herrschaft" zwischen Untertanen und Obrigkeiten in diesem Prozess.
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This edited volume compares experiences of how the Covid-19 pandemic was communicated in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The Nordic countries are often discussed in terms of similarities concerning an extensive welfare system, economic policies, media systems, and high levels of trust in societal actors. However, in the wake of a global pandemic, the countries' coping strategies varied, creating certain question marks on the existence of a "Nordic model". The chapters give a broad overview of crisis communication in the Nordic countries during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic by combining organisational and societal theoretical perspectives and encompassing crisis response from governments, public health authorities, lobbyists, corporations, news media, and citizens. The results show several similarities, such as political and governmental responses highlighting solidarity and the need for exceptional measures, as expressed in press conferences, social media posts, information campaigns, and speeches. The media coverage relied on experts and was mainly informative, with few critical investigations during the initial phases. Moreover, surveys and interviews show the importance of news media for citizens' coping strategies, but also that citizens mostly trusted both politicians and health authorities during the crisis. This book is of interest to all who are looking to understand societal crisis management on a comprehensive level. The volume contains chapters from leading experts from all the Nordic countries and is edited by a team with complementary expertise on crisis communication, political communication, and journalism, consisting of Bengt Johansson, Øyvind Ihlen, Jenny Lindholm, and Mark Blach-Ørsten. .
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The Business Reference Guide series is designed to provide a solid foundation for the research of various business topics.
Crisis management --- Decision making. --- Crisis management.
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Crisis management. --- Leadership. --- Epidemics.
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No one knows this better than Eric Dezenhall and John Weber, who help companies, politicians, and celebrities get out of various kinds of trouble. In this brutally honest and eye-opening guide, they take you behind the scenes of some of the biggest public relations successes?and debacles?of modern business, politics, and entertainment.You'll discover:? Why the 1982 Tylenol cyanide-poisoning case is always cited as the best model for damage control, when in fact it has no relevance to the typical corporate crisis.? Why Audi never fully recovered from driver accusations of ?sudd
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Global best practices for evacuating people of all ages/ health conditions from workplaces of all kinds. Based on 12 years' research, it includes book + downloadable resources with tools, templates, case studies, sample plans, forms, and checklists...
Buildings --- Emergency management. --- Crisis management. --- Evacuation.
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Emergency management --- Crisis management --- Facility management
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