The increasing complexity of the modern world poses risks to human and environmental safety, economic development, and, most seriously of all, national and international security. These risks constitute a real and critical challenge for the national governments and international bodies responsible for developing and implementing crisis management policies. Such policies are defined here as the development of knowledge and management practices to deal effectively with nonroutine events and phenomena: both the hectic moments of crisis decision making and the managerial areas of long-range prevention, preparation, and mitigation of risks and threats. Their coverage ranges from times of normality to the sensitive domain of recovery and change following an immediate crisis response (Comfort, 1988; Rockett, 1999; Rodriguez et al., 2006; Rosenthal et al., 2001).
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Porfiriev, B. (2009). Managing Security and Safety Risks in the Baltic Sea Region. In: Sjöstedt, G., Avenhaus, R. (eds) Negotiated Risks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92993-2_12
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