Concept information
Preferred term
crisis management
Definition
- Crisis management pertains to all activities aimed at preventing, mitigating, and terminating crises. We speak of crisis when a community of people—an organization, a town, or a nation—perceives an urgent threat to core values or life-sustaining functions, which must be urgently dealt with under conditions of deep uncertainty. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Crisis Management]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- civil crisis management
- corporate crisis management
- crisis management organizations
- disaster information databases
- engineering and technological crises
- financial crises
- issues in crisis management
- natural disasters
- political crises
- population crises
- public health crisis management
- risk management standards
- sociology of crisis management
- U.S. crisis management agencies
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/crisis_management
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