2025: Crisis Management Days Conference Proceedings
The role of media in crises & Local community resilience to disasters – experiences

Communication Between Local and Regional Self-government Units in Crisis Situations

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  • Drago Martinović
Drago Martinović
Civil Protection Directorate of Western Herzegovina County

Published 2025-12-04

Keywords

  • Crisis,
  • Crisis communication,
  • Local Government,
  • regional government

How to Cite

Martinović, D. (2025). Communication Between Local and Regional Self-government Units in Crisis Situations. Crisis Management Days. Retrieved from https://ocs.vvg.hr/index.php/DKU/article/view/742

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Abstract

Organizations affected by crisis situations should become the primary source of information. Therefore, the importance of their actions is most evident in crisis situations, usually through PR officers or spokespersons. Since the most feared crises are major accidents and disasters, crises caused by sudden forces of nature, technical-technological and other events, the focus of this work is on the administrative levels close to the citizens, the local and regional self-government units, and their actions in such situations. In addition to the personnel requirements for the successful management of protection and rescue operations and crisis communication, normative and legal measures are also necessary to deal with crisis situations. Therefore, one of the main objectives of this thesis is the collection of data and the presentation of research results on the personnel and normative-legal requirements for successful crisis communication of local and regional self-government units with the public through secondary research and e-survey.

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