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Resilience is the capacity and ability of organizational systems to recover from shocks and disasters and to continue to thrive during and after disasters. Ethics of resiliency is the defined responsibilities of public administrators to ensure the maximum resilience of all the parts of the interdependent systems within an organization to prepare for and recover from crises.
Introduction: Resilience and Adaptability
Various aspects of climate preparedness, disaster planning and recovery, and hazard mitigation are researched and studied at length, focusing on the administrative role in resilience planning, adaptation, and disaster mitigation and crisis management (Wamsler 2014; Alibašić 2014). The resiliency to crisis and disaster is the capacity and adaptability of systems not only to withstand stresses and shocks but also to continue to thrive during and after the disaster. System change...
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Alibašić, H. (2018). Ethics of Resiliency in Crisis Management. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3426-1
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