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

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  • Neil Ward
  • Andrew Donaldson
  • Philip Lowe

    (Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England)

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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.

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  • Neil Ward & Andrew Donaldson & Philip Lowe, 2004. "Policy Framing and Learning the Lessons from the UK's Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 22(2), pages 291-306, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:22:y:2004:i:2:p:291-306
    DOI: 10.1068/c0209s
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