Human-made disasters in a decentralized context : How Czech municipalities are dealing with the Ukrainian crisis

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Authors	JELÍNKOVÁ Marie VALENTINOV Vladislav PLAČEK Michal VACEKOVÁ Gabriela
Year of publication	2023
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Public Money & Management
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540962.2022.2154950
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2022.2154950
Keywords	Czech Republic; decentralization; human-made disasters; refugees; stakeholder collaboration; Ukrainian crisis
Attached files	Human-made_disasters_in_a_decentralized_context.pdf
Description	Czech municipalities have had to offer integration services to over 300,000 Ukrainian refugees. The article argues that this enormous challenge means that municipalities need to develop broader stakeholder collaborations than are currently available. Drawing on recent empirical work, the article shows that Czech municipalities face major bottlenecks becaue they have had to deal with the crisis largely on their own. The key conclusion is that the need for co-ordinated and concerted action aimed at dealing with the Ukrainian crisis has been intensified by the high degree of political decentralization which is characteristic of the Czech Republic. This article adds to the literature by analysing the response of excessively decentralized systems to human-made disasters.