Policy framing and learning the lessons from the UK’s Foot and Mouth Disease crisis

Ward, Neil, Donaldson, Andrew and Lowe, Philip (2004) Policy framing and learning the lessons from the UK’s Foot and Mouth Disease crisis. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22 (2). pp. 291-306. ISSN 1472-3425

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Abstract

The 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic cost over £8 billion and wreaked havoc upon the British countryside. The paper examines the institutional response to the crisis and the subsequent inquiries. Drawing on the ‘garbage-can model’ of organisational choice and ideas of ‘policy framing’, it argues that the institutional response to FMD was tightly focused on agricultural interests. Subsequently, a compartmentalised approach to lesson learning has been partial in its coverage. The result is that important lessons, of a more holistic and integrated nature, have been overlooked despite the replacement of the Ministry of Agriculture with a new Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Nicola Secker
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2011 08:12
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2023 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26958
DOI:	10.1068/c0209s

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