How Corona Crisis Affects Critical Flows – a Swedish Perspective
Lindström, Josefin LU
and Johansson, Jonas
LU
(2021)
p.2986-2993
- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- Lindström, Josefin
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and Johansson, Jonas
LU
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- Proceedings of the 31th European Safety and Reliability Conference
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- 8 pages
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- Research Publishing (S) Pte Ltd.
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- scopus:85135439126
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- 978-981-18-2016-8
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- 10.3850/978-981-18-2016-8_385-cd
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abstract = {{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.}},
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booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 31th European Safety and Reliability Conference}},
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title = {{How Corona Crisis Affects Critical Flows – a Swedish Perspective}},
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