@book {bnh-8323,
	title = {Making Sense of Natural Disasters: The Learning Vacuum of Bushfire Public Inquiries},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {135},
	publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
	organization = {Palgrave Macmillan},
	edition = {1},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {<p>This book examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural disasters. Examining recent bushfires in Australia, it demonstrates that whilst public inquiries that follow such disasters can be important for learning and change, they have ultimately created a learning vacuum insofar as their recommendations repeat themselves. This has kept governments and society focused on learning lessons about the past, rather than for the future. Accordingly, this book recommends a new approach to sensemaking and learning focused on prospective planning rather than retrospective recommendations, and where planning for the future is seen as the shared responsibility of the government, society, and the emergency management community in Australia and beyond.</p>},
	keywords = {bushfires public reviews, governance, Natural disasters, organizational learning, public inquiries, risk management},
	isbn = {978-3-030-94778-1},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94778-1},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94778-1$\#$about},
	author = {Graham Dwyer}
}
@article {bnh-6592,
	title = {Post-inquiry sensemaking: the case of the {\textquoteleft}Black Saturday{\textquoteright} bushfires},
	journal = {Organization Studies},
	year = {2020},
	month = {01/2020},
	abstract = {<p>We examine post-inquiry sensemaking by emergency management practitioners following an inquiry into the most damaging bushfire disaster in Australia{\textquoteright}s history. We theorize a model of post-inquiry sensemaking with four distinct but overlapping phases during which sensemaking becomes more prospective over time. In addition to providing important insights into what has, hitherto, been a neglected arena for sensemaking studies, i.e. post-inquiry sensemaking, we contribute to the understanding of sensemaking more generally. Specifically, we show the complex nature of the relationship between sensemaking and equivocality, explain how multiple frames enhance sensemaking, and explore temporality in sensemaking over time.</p>},
	keywords = {interpretive scheme, Learning, organizational learning, sensemaking theory, single case study, vicarious learning},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619896271},
	url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0170840619896271},
	author = {Graham Dwyer and Cynthia Hardy and Steve Maguire}
}
