ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that a variety of different types of collaborative arrangements that have been put in place to facilitate and enhance collaboration during crisis preparedness, recovery, and response. It aims to convey several examples where efforts to achieve collaboration have resulted in frictions, tensions, and conflicts among actors. The book suggests that insights in the broader literature on collaborative governance and public management about uncertainty and conflict. It discusses what avenues of future research may emerge and what may be the next important steps to push the knowledge frontier. The book provides a definitive answer to the question of what may explain differences across cases of collaborative crisis management.
