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Disaster management.
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Disaster management includes a complex set of activities which are carried out both in the pre- and post-disaster stage. Emergency management practitioners and scholars refer to these activities as the four phases of a comprehensive emergency management cycle, which include mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Mitigation and preparedness are pre-disaster activities, while response and recovery constitute post-disaster activities (Clary 1985; Prater and Lindell 2000; Haddow et al. 2008). Each phase follows the previous, though its core functions persist even after its main activities are accomplished. For example, while working in a response phase, organizations might continue to encourage preparedness activities for communities, in order to reduce, at minimum, secondary impacts or encourage citizens to...
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Velotti, L., Cavaliere, P. (2017). Disaster Management and Nonprofits Organizations. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3006-1
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