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- Title
CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE: CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA.
- Authors
POPOVSKI, Vasko
- Abstract
We are witnessing increased number of crises and natural disasters and more frequent new types of risks that are initiating atypical threats. Moreover, climate change is expected to cause unprecedented waves of climate refugees in the near future. Therefore, crisis management is expected to take into consideration all new risks and threats, including resilience as a new element of risk. With this approach, the crisis management system shall be improved and transformed from reactive to proactive. The aim of this research article is to understand the meaning of resilience and crisis management, as well as to research the integration of resilience in the crisis management system in the Republic of Macedonia. For that purpose, the methods of content analysis and comparative analysis have been used. Resilience is defined as the ability of individuals, communities, systems or states to withstand or absorb shocks and stresses, adapting to the new situation with the aim of quick recovery and positively changing themselves in order to better respond to future shocks and stresses. After reviewing the adequate normative and strategic frameworks for crisis management of the country, it can be concluded that the concept of resilience is not included in the crisis management and disaster risk management. With the aim of developing a resilient society to crisis and disasters in the Republic of Macedonia, it is necessary to fully include the concept of resilience in the normative and strategic documents from the crisis management area. Only in that way, can we build a society that would not only absorb the effects from crisis and disasters, but would rather transform the crisis to possibilities, and the temporary shortcomings to long-term consolidation and strengthening of the society.
- Subjects
FINANCIAL crises; DISASTER resilience; MACEDONIAN politics &; government; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Contemporary Macedonian Defense / Sovremena Makedonska Odbrana, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 34, p73
- ISSN
1409-8199
- Publication type
Article