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Crisis Management in Cities: Postmoden View

Growing complexities, uncertainty, urbanization trends and interdependence mark todays strategic planning and decision making challenges cities and its leaders are facing. Redefined postmodern view requires new innovative strategic and operative crisis management approaches. Accordingly, with the aim of responding to new threats and challenges, cities crisis management latest focus needs to adapt by mobilizing external and internal resources and konwledge available, in order to make cities safer and more crisis resilient. This paper applies theoretical approach and literature review of considering latest crisis management and resilience approaches, where it identifies and discusses significant tools, activities and effective crisis management capabilities for the 21st century cities challenges. Today's new urban crisis management focus is on: - evaluation of cities vulnerabilities through use of integrated monitoring for threats through use of early warning systems ; - application of strategic crisis preparedness plans, exercises and drills ; - development and application of social media strategies for enhanced crisis communication ; - use of sophisticated ICT infastructure, big data, advanced city crisis management systems and analytical capabilities, which enable timely and adequate communication and distribution of information - collaboration and knowledge sharing with citizens and partner cities and alliances, Stated activities help cities develop strategies, improve crisis preparedness and planning, avert crisis, improve proactive and rapid response capabilities, aid recovery, as well as enhance agility and coordination in crisis. The findings can be of particular practical and theoretical interest and value to cities leaders, crisis managers and strategy planners.

cities, crisis management, postmodern, preparedness, resilience

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