English mini-project semester 1:

Risk and crisis management

Summary

Introduction…………………………………………………………………...……...p 3

1. Principles and theory for crisis management………........……..…..p 4

2. Natural disaster: causes and management…………..…………….....p 5

3. The outside management…..…………...…………………………..……….p 8

Conclusion………………….……………………………………………………..…p 10

Bibliography…………………………………………………………………...……p 11

Introduction

The crisis is an unusual situation characterized by its instability, which obliges to adopt a specific governance to return to the usual lifestyle.

So we can define the crisis management like all the modes of organization, techniques and means which allow an organization to get ready and to face the emergence of a crisis then to pull the teachings of the event to improve the procedures and the structures in a forward-looking vision.

We are going to develop how climatic risks can influence an economic crisis.
To answer to this problem we are going to present how to manage a crisis in theory.
Then we will illustrate the theories with an example of a natural disaster crisis.

Hardly recovered from the 1999’s storm, Aquitaine’s Wood industry had to face a new disaster, on the 24th of January 2009, which has probably more damaged the forest. In 1999 we were caught totally unprepared, in 2009 we were fully prepared, to face this kind of storm.

1. PRINCIPLES and theory for crisis management

From the French dictionary: une crise: rapid change, usually decisive, occurring in the state of a patient; be in crisis through a difficult period where we have to solve many contradictions. The crisis period of economic difficulties, political and are seen as ideological breakthrough.
From the English dictionary: a crisis: a turning point; a critical point of a disease; an emergency; a time of serious difficulties or danger.

A crisis is neither an incident or an accident or a conflict.
A crisis appears when a