Complexity in Urban Crisis Management : Amsterdam's Response to the Bijlmer Air Disaster

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 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. 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. Uriel Rosenthal ... [et Al]. Crisis Research Center, Department Of Public Administration, University Of Leiden, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Includes Bibliographical References.