An analysis of assistance needs during the storm Gudrun
Author
Editor
- Alan Jones
Summary, in English
On the 8th of January 2005 the south of Sweden was hit by a major storm, Gudrun, with long lasting gusts of hurricane strength. Trees corresponding to more than 75,000,000 cubic meters of wood were blown down, and a total of 341,000 homes lost power during the storm. In the municipality of Ljungby, the effects were severe in terms of loss of utilities such as electricity and telecommunications, infrastructure breakdowns that lasted for several weeks after the storm. This situation gave rise to a variety of assistance needs among the affected population. The objective of this paper is to evaluate a constructed categorisation of assistance needs against empirical findings from the response to the storm Gudrun in the municipality of Ljungby and discuss some implications for societal preparedness activities. The work is based on an analysis of interviews with mainly municipal actors of central importance during the response and of written documents describing experiences during and after the storm.
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Pages
65-72
Publication/Series
[Host publication title missing]
Volume
14
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia
Topic
- Other Civil Engineering
- Building Technologies
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- risk and vulnerability analysis
- Emergency management
- emergency response
- assistance needs
- preparedness
Conference name
14th TIEMS Annual Conference, 2007
Conference date
2007-06-05 - 2007-06-08
Conference place
Trogir, Croatia
Status
Published
Project
- FRIVA
Research group
- LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management