This book examines the extent to which post-crisis inquiries actually do deliver effective lesson-learning and thereby reduce vulnerability to future threats.

In the aftermath of major crises, governments usually turn to expensive public inquiries. Clearly, such inquiries have an important policy-learning mandate. How

Risk and Crisis Management in the Public Sector 3rd edition is a guide for public managers and public management students which combines practical and scholarly

Public inquiries regularly produce outcomes of importance to policy design. However, the policy design literature has largely ignored the many important ways th

This book examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural disasters. Examining recent bushfires in Australia, it