Why local knowledge is critical in crisis

Who will you turn to when the ‘experts’ can’t get to you?

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Crisis is a tricky beast. While one may be easily convinced it’s a chaotic, yet manageable set of circumstances that can be somehow shoved into a uniform set of solutions — actually — it’s not. Unless, that is the set of solutions are appropriately positioned to account for a set of variables that may, or may not be present in any…