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What is Environmental Damage

Business Continuity Management and Resilience: Theories, Models, and Processes
A reduction in the capacity of the environment and the inability to meet the social and environmental goals and needs of society.
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Crisis Management Challenges
Elitsa Petrova (Vasil Levski National Military University, Bulgaria)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1658-0.ch002
Abstract
The world is facing unprecedented crises and emergencies on a global scale. They are distinguished by the inclusion of new elements and characteristics in them, their extreme intensity, they are complex and complicated, and they affect many sectors of social development. Politics and diplomacy are often silent or unable to achieve the required result. Civilians, military personnel, women, children completely senselessly lose their lives for impossible and strange causes or for those that should unite and not divide people, families, society. The international community and world leaders must take immediate measures to reduce military conflicts and crises, poverty and inequality, hunger and disease, violence against women and children. This chapter examines Crisis (essence, content, views), traditional and modern forms of crises, unprecedented crises and emergencies on a global scale, and the crisis management concept framework.
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Discussion on Legal Issues Related to Salvage Operations in Turkish Straits
Substantial physical damage to human health or marine life or resources in coastal or inland waters or areas adjacent thereto, caused by pollution, contamination, fire, explosion, or similar major incidents.
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