Policy Framing and Learning the Lessons from the UK's Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis

Neil Ward, Andrew Donaldson and Philip Lowe
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Philip Lowe: Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England

Environment and Planning C, 2004, vol. 22, issue 2, 291-306

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.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1068/c0209s

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