Volunteers in emergency management ? an investment in the future?

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/DMAN130341" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/DMAN130341</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/DMAN130341" target="_blank" >10.2495/DMAN130341</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Volunteers in emergency management ? an investment in the future?
Original language description
There are currently two interconnected and conflicting challenges in many countries in the world: emergency and disaster preparedness and the public finance crisis. Volunteers are a valuable and necessary resource for emergency and disaster management. This paper deals with various experiences and emergencies in the Czech Republic in which the nonprofit sector is significantly involved. The aim of the paper is to identify the scope of Czech emergency volunteering and its role in the national IntegratedRescue System (IRS). The Czech IRS is a well-established system based partly on volunteers. The volunteer-to-professional ratio is nearly 12 to 1 for firefighters and about 3.6 to 1 for the mountain rescue service; the water rescue service consists exclusively of volunteers. Moreover, hundreds or thousands of people volunteer during large floods. The scope of volunteer engagement during emergency situations can also be illustrated through estimates of its economic value.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Disaster Management and Human Health Risk III: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes
ISBN
9781845647384
ISSN
1743-3509
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
381-391
Publisher name
WIT Press
Place of publication
Southampton
Event location
A Coru?a
Event date
Jul 9, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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