Clegg, the deputy prime minister, also identified "a crisis in different pillars of the establishment" which must be addressed.
What is the work of image-makers on the front lines, of those identifying a crisis that seems to require more than laws and policy changes?
In the two decades since she wrote "In a Different Voice" and went on to identify a crisis of confidence in adolescent girls -- a phenomenon Ms. Gilligan famously dubbed "losing voice" -- her work has attained the status of public gospel, inspiring pop psychology books, feminist lobbies and op-ed columnists, and galvanizing policy makers.
The ambulance service was also named as negligent during the tragedy, as their inability to identify a crisis worsened the already dire situation.
In the 1970s, John Gardner, who helped found both Common Cause and the American Leadership Forum (ALF), identified a crisis of leadership in the country.
The crisis plans that do exist vary in detail and scope — Dow Chemical had one that included the names of the people who would be responsible for running the copy machines — but, basically, they suggest vulnerabilities (and potential remedies), identify a crisis-management team, and lay out a general script.
The justification for such a severe move is from a rationale that identifies an ecological crisis as the prime driver and draws on the convergence principle in modernization theory.
The article identifies a century-long "crisis of infinity" during which the concept of infinity lacked a stable mathematical definition and, for that reason among others, generated heated discussion within the discourses of religion, philosophy, mathematics, and aesthetics.
When asked which of 28 risks would have the biggest global impact, the experts identified a water crisis.
While the embargo crippled Gaza's economy, at no point did observers identify a food crisis developing in the territory, whose residents rely heavily on international food aid.
