Natural disaster risk can be seen as the potential probability of loss (human, physical, economic, natural, social) due to the natural danger that threatens a certain area in a certain period.
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Natural Disasters and Risk Management: A Theoretical Overview
Milica Jovanović Vujatović (Innovation Center, University of Niš, Serbia), Sandra Milanović (Innovation Center, University of Niš, Serbia), and Ivana Janjić (Innovation Center, University of Niš, Serbia)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8459-0.ch002
Abstract
In recent years, natural disasters have compelled public authorities, organizations, and citizens to increase their efforts in properly planning and implementing effective risk management procedures. Accordingly, in literature contemporary concepts such as natural disaster risk management and crisis management emerged. Therefore, the chapter aims to shed light on the significance of natural disaster risk management and crisis management in the development of an effective societal system by its transformation and to point out the positive and negative factors influencing these management activities. The authors will firstly give an overview of these two concepts, their elements, and development phases, and afterward, the investigation of possible positive and negative factors of natural disaster risk management will be introduced. The chapter will make a significant contribution to filling the gap in the literature on mitigating the influence of natural disasters and risk management.