Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters Kernick Gill
Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters Kernick Gill The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. Like…
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Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters Kernick Gill
The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. Like other catastrophic events before it and since, it has the power to bring about lasting change. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
The historical evidence is weighed against 'lessons being learned' in a meaningful or enduring way. But will it? In an attempt to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a case study to consider two questions.
- Why don't we learn? - What would it take to enable real systemic change? The book explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo.
It offers an accessible model for systemic change, not