04546nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-60167-5 DE-He213 20251030112634.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240717s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031601675 978-3-031-60167-5 10.1007/978-3-031-60167-5 doi GF RGC bicssc SOC015000 bisacsh RGC thema Civil Protection Systems and Disaster Governance [electronic resource] : A Cross-Regional Approach / edited by Stanisław Kowalkowski, Danuta Kaźmierczak, Salvin Paul. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 165 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1 Introduction -- 2 Contemporary Security Environment - a Threat-Based Approach -- 3 Protecting Critical Infrastructure – Methods And Techniques -- 4 Protecting Infrastructure Against Terrorist Attacks -- 5 Covid- 19 Pandemic And The Impact On Women In Pakistan -- 6 Challenges to National DRM Systems: Analyzing the Reactions of Al-Shabaab’s 2022 Attack on Hormuud Telecom in Somalia -- 7 Border identity: Impact of evolving ethnicities on refugee policy and protection in Uganda -- 8 Assessing cooperation of civil and public entities while fighting The Oder River contamination -- 9 Conclusion. This books offers a comprehensive overview of the possible effects of disasters or crisis situations on civil protections which have been challenged and tested during these scenarios. The book provides a comprehensive discussion on security and threats, describes the examples of crisis situations faced by people across regions of Africa, Asia, and Europe: the border ethnicity conflict experienced by the Rwandan refugees in Uganda, the impact of terrorism on critical infrastructure in Somalia, the Covid 19 pandemic impact on the Pakistani, and finally the pollution of the Oder Basin. The analyses and findings of this work provides a framework to improve the entities of the civil protection system, its subsystems, institutions and agencies; they are subjects of examination to improve their command, control and operational capacities during disasters. The challenges described in the book are of different nature and have arisen from a variety of global settings, yet they all implemented effective and more adaptive, cooperative methods for civil protection on a national and international level. Stanisław Kowalkowski, colonel, professor, The Military Engineering, Camouflaging and Force Protection Faculty at War Studies University in Warsaw, Poland. Engineering and technology specialist at engineering support and crisis management Danuta Kaźmierczak, prof. assoc., University of The National Education Commission Krakow, Poland, research in human security, civil protection, safety education management Paul Salvin, Associate Professor, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University of Delhi. Human geography. 58506 Security, International. 58210 Science Social aspects. 69032 Human Geography. 58506 International Security Studies. 69560 Science and Technology Studies. 69033 Kowalkowski, Stanisław. editor. (orcid)0000-0002-3982-1442 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3982-1442 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 80764 Kaźmierczak, Danuta. editor. (orcid)0000-0003-2513-2942 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2513-2942 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 80765 Paul, Salvin. editor. (orcid)0000-0002-5743-7911 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5743-7911 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 80766 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031601668 Printed edition: 9783031601682 Printed edition: 9783031601699 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60167-5 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 61686 61686