Designing Resilience for Security in the Nordic Region

In the Nordic countries we have come to expect disaster. Therefore, systems are being set up to enable individual citizens, organisations and governments to prepare for the worst, to build resilience. This book chapter ('Designing resilience for security in the Nordic region: Implications for strategy', part III, chapter 7, page 131-153) in the Routledge book 'Nordic Societal Security: Convergence and Divergence'  (open access) identifies three forms of such resilience across Sweden, Norway and Denmark and discusses their implications for the way governments formulate strategies of security when planning for the unknown.

The book chapter is written by Trine Villumsen Berling, senior researcher, DIIS and Karen Lund Petersen, professor, Institut for statskundskab, University of Copenhagen.