Preventing and Managing Large-Scale Disasters in Swiss Cities (original) (raw)

While risk managers at the city level have generally been found to favor a stronger involvement by, and engagement with, the federal government in the predisaster phase, the clash of ‘cultures’ between the operationally-oriented city risk managers and the more strategically-oriented federal agencies needs to be acknowledged and addressed. The federal concepts are “...useful, but very general. [...] What we needed is a much more operational basis for planning, much more focused on the ground. [...] It is important that the Table 2: Stated events and processes influencing city-level risk analysis. Preventing and Managing Large-Scale Disasters in Swiss Cities 10 Confederation understands this...”12 A possible reason for this clash, mentioned by the interviewees, is that cities are only rarely actively involved in the risk identification and analysis process of higher political levels. Following the interviewees’ perspective, by developing concepts and scenarios for risks that are direc...