Environmental changes and new dimension of security
Journal Title: Logistics and Transport - Year 2010, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper presents an environment as life conditions and as a source of risks and crisis. Contemporary changes in environment from point of view possible influence on security situation, on health threat, life and life environment and property are characterized. There is identified possible approach to define and to classify of security in second part. We deal with explanation of military and non-military security. At last part there are define key problems of theory and praxis crisis management: theoretical and methodological approaches, principles and rules for managing of social systems in crisis situations, process of crisis management as a cycle application of functions considering the prevention, preparation, mitigation, response and the recovery processes.
Authors and Affiliations
Vladimír T. Míka
Classification Approaches for Mezo-Systems: Spatial-Branch Aspect
The role and types of mezo-economic systems are considered, their place in the classification of economic systems. Management of logistics systems as part of mezo-economic have their own peculiarities of formation and ma...
The support for clustering development in Polish realities
Therefore, cluster-based policy gains an exceptional meaning. Selecting that model of policy, the problem of public aid and support instruments’ appliance are crucial issues. Beside the aspects that were mentioned above,...
MANAŽMENT RIZÍK V DODÁVATEĽSKÝCH REŤAZCOCH - SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT
The contribution deals with the theoretical tasks of importance and characteristics of logistics chains. It describes the need of participants integration and importance of process management in logistics chains. It incl...
Contemporary Air Freight Transport Market
The worldwide air freight transport is seen mostly from the angle of long-distance passenger flights. Given that, one often tends to forget the role of this transport branch in the case of commodity transport. Air freigh...
The Future of the European Logistics Centres as Nodal Objects of Intermodal Transport Infrastructure
The article describes the general characteristics of logistics centres. In particular, functions, types and characteristics of the model logistics centre were presented. The logistics centres associated in Europlatforms...