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Jonas Johansson

Jonas Johansson

Universitetslektor

Jonas Johansson

How Corona Crisis Affects Critical Flows – a Swedish Perspective

Författare

  • Josefin Lindström
  • Jonas Johansson

Summary, in English

The functioning of modern societies is highly dependent on flows, relying on timely deliveries of goods and services. Critical flows are those particularly important, e.g., electricity, food, and pharmaceuticals. Infrastructures upholding flows often transgress national borders, where a disruption can escalate into wide-spread crises. Continuity of critical flows is hence of outmost importance under stresses. A worldwide ongoing stress is the coronavirus pandemic, strongly characterizing 2020 and dominating media, resulting in closed borders, lock-downs, halted production, and altered demand patterns. The corona crisis is foremost a health crisis, with devastating consequences on people's life and health. Many studies have focused on the healthcare sector, with limited attention on critical flows in other sectors. This study aims to explore effects on critical flows within four societal sectors (transport, energy, info-com and food) in Sweden to date. A scoping study of Swedish printed press throughout 2020 was performed, investigating actual and potential flow impacts, flow interdependencies, and implications for preparedness and resilience. The media database Retriever Research was used to identify 4693 news and opinion articles, of which 145 relevant articles were subjected to content analysis. Concluding that limited critical flow disruptions occurred despite many prophecies and predictions. The disruptions that occurred were short-lived, non-severe, and mostly originating from secondary effects, indicating that Swedish critical flows in these sectors are resilient to this type of pandemics.

Avdelning/ar

  • Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2986-2993

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Proceedings of the 31th European Safety and Reliability Conference

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

Research Publishing (S) Pte Ltd.

Ämne

  • Transport Systems and Logistics
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-981-18-2016-8