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Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters

SND-ID: 2022-63

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Örjan Bodin - Stockholm University

Description

The study applies a network-centric method to investigate wildfire responder networks in Canada and Sweden. It investigates actor collaboration when addressing interdependent tasks, and assesses how certain network structures of actors-and-tasks relationships influence task effectiveness.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Stockholm University

Responsible department/unit

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Contributor(s)

Lorien Jasny - University of Exeter, Department of Politics

Julia Baird - Brock University, Department of Geography and Tourism Studies

Angela Guerrero - Queensland University of Technology

Robert Summers - University of Alberta, School of Urban and Regional Planning

Ryan Plummer - Brock University, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre

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Commissioning organisation

Stockholm University

Funding

  • Funding agency: Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Wildfire responders situated in regional headquarters in Sweden and Canada

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration
80-95% of all actors situated in the regional headquarters of the studied wildfires

Time period(s) investigated

2014-07-01 – 2016-12-31

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Canada

Geographic description: Alberta, Canada, and Västmanland, Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

Province

Highest geographic unit

Province

Topic and keywords

Research area

Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Public Administration Studies (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

social networks, wildfires

Publications

Bodin et al. (2022), "Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters", Public Administrative Review (in press)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13518

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Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters

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Associated documentation

Description

The published article describes the data in-depth. The data consists of collaborative relationships between the actors that participated in the wildfire responses, and the actors' assessments of their own effectiveness in addressing their tasks. The data has been analysed in order to evaluate if and how the collaborative relationships have effected the actors' effectiveness in addressing their tasks. The method is thoroughly described in the article. An R script made available together with the

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Version 1

Citation

Örjan Bodin. Stockholm University (2022). Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/rs9k-j516

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Örjan Bodin - Stockholm University

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
  • Description of the mode of collection: Survey sent to all actors that were engaged in the crisis response headquarters during the first critical time period
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2014-07-01–2016-12-31
  • Sample size: 182
  • Number of responses: 182
  • Non response size: 25
  • Cause of non response - No contact/refusal: 25
  • Source of the data: Population group

Number of individuals/objects

182

Response rate/participation rate

87%

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Published: 2022-05-31