Tuy nhiên chức năng là nơi chứa đựng chất thải của môi trường là có giới hạn. Nếu con người vượt quá giới hạn này thì sẽ gây ra mất cân bằng sinh thái và ô nhiễm môi trường. | 236 Olsson this was echoed by the affected actors saying that the government was buying water entitlements not actual water . The group of affected actors was also blaming the government for ignoring the broader impact of their policies Wouldn t it be a tragedy if people in town weren t paid. If the farmer is paid to leave there would be no town. So it would just be a ridiculous proposition to buy out the farmers and not buy out the town 2 September 2008 . In summary it can be noted that this was the most politicized frame of all going against previous research primarily pointing out the causes of the crisis to be the frame determining politicization in crisis. One reason might well be that the scientists who in the two other frames were allowed to make authoritative claims when defining the situation and its causes had a less strong role in this frame thus opening up more of a competition among other actors framing. 4. Discussion The article has illustrated that responsibility framing in connection with compounded crises can significantly gain by considering not only political actors framing of a situation but also those other actor groups involved in framing a crisis. Such an approach will provide a richer understanding of constraints and opportunities facing various actors. One conclusion to be drawn from the analysis is that crisis managers are facing basically two types of constraints affecting their communicative spaces external media factors actors own previous policies in related areas and internal media factors other actors framing of the issue as it plays out in the media . Actors are in general in control of the first one in which they are rather bound by their own previous policy commitments whereas the latter depends on media coverage of a particular event. Before moving on to the propositions derived from the case in relation to further research on communication in compounded crises it should be noted that this discussion was based on a single case .