The floods in Bangkok showed some of the major problems, which lead to one important statement: "These are not longer ,natural catastrophes'", explains Kraas, "that are social and civilisation-caused catastrophes." Urban systems show complex emergencies and thus need a special approach. Raulin gives insight into the topic of urban stakeholders: It is an ongoing process with a lot of learning by doing.
Why is a stakeholder analysis important? It shows the connections between the many different stakeholders and thus explains the dependencies, the goals of the stakeholders and much more. Raulin and his team wanted to create a method useful for all researchers. The visualisation of the network of the stakeholders was one of the most important parts of this method.