Complexity in Urban Crisis Management

A minute-by-minute account, analysis and evaluation of how local authorities responded when a major air crash destroyed a large number of flats in an Amsterdam suburb in October 1992. The text shows how the impact of such an event requires a highly complex form of crisis management.

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First published in 1994. A major air crash destroying a large number of flats in a densely populated suburb shocked the city of Amsterdam and highlighted the dangers of airports in the vicinity of urban centres. This book provides a minute-by-minute account, analysis and evaluation of how local authorities responded to the disaster that took place in the Bijlmer area of Amsterdam in October 1992.