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incident management  

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  • Large-scale crisis events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Japanese tsunami, and the swine flu outbreak illustrate crises whose scale, distribution, complexity, and duration require unique management capabilities. Incident management provides this capability. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Incident Management]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/incident_management

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