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Enhancing Crisis Readiness Civil Protection Exercises and Public Awareness in the City of Zagreb
Get PDFIntroduction
This paper examines how civil protection exercises and public awareness initiatives contribute to improving the City of Zagreb’s preparedness for emergency situations. The city regularly conducts exercises involving all relevant stakeholders to assess the effectiveness and coordination of emergency services in crisis scenarios. Additionally, public education campaigns play a crucial role in enhancing community resilience by equipping citizens with the knowledge and skills necessary to respond effectively to emergencies.
Methodology
The research is based on an analysis of civil protection exercises conducted in Zagreb, focusing on two major drills held last year: one simulating a radiological incident and another involving the rescue of multiple individuals from a complex of three large buildings. Data was gathered from official reports, expert evaluations, and observations of exercise performance. Furthermore, the study incorporates insights from real-life emergencies, such as an earthquake and a severe storm, to evaluate how past experiences have shaped current preparedness strategies. Public education efforts were also analyzed through participation levels and effectiveness in raising awareness about disaster response measures.
Main Results
Findings indicate that civil protection exercises significantly contribute to improving coordination, decision-making speed, and operational efficiency among emergency services, including medical teams, firefighters, and law enforcement. While exercises help identify shortcomings in response strategies, real-life emergencies have further exposed gaps in inter-agency coordination and resource management. The study highlights the importance of continuous training and system improvements to address these challenges. Additionally, public awareness initiatives have proven effective in educating citizens about emergency preparedness, though further engagement and outreach efforts are necessary to enhance overall societal resilience. The combination of structured exercises and public education is essential for strengthening crisis readiness in the City of Zagreb.
Magdalena Combaj
Sector for Civil Protection and Security
 
Enhancing Crisis Readiness: Civil Protection Exercises and Public Awareness in the City of Zagreb
No full textAbstract: This paper explores the role of civil protection exercises and public awareness initiatives in improving emergency preparedness in the City of Zagreb. The city regularly conducts exercises involving various stakeholders to assess the effectiveness and coordination of emergency services in crisis situations. Public education campaigns also play a key role in boosting community resilience by equipping citizens with the necessary skills to respond to emergencies.
The research focuses on two major drills held last year: one simulating a radiological incident and another involving a large-scale rescue operation. Data was gathered from official reports, expert evaluations, and observations. The study also analyzes real-life emergencies, such as an earthquake and storm, to assess their impact on current preparedness strategies. Public education efforts were evaluated based on participation and effectiveness. The findings suggest that civil protection exercises improve coordination and operational efficiency among emergency services. While real-life incidents have exposed gaps in coordination and resource management, ongoing training and system improvements are needed. Public awareness initiatives have been effective in educating citizens, but more outreach is required to enhance societal resilience. Combining structured exercises and public education is crucial for strengthening crisis preparedness in Zagreb.
1. INTRODUCTION
This paper examines how civil protection exercises and public awareness initiatives contribute to improving the City of Zagreb’s preparedness for emergency situations. The city regularly conducts exercises involving all relevant stakeholders to assess the effectiveness and coordination of emergency services in crisis scenarios. Additionally, public education campaigns play a crucial role in enhancing community resilience by equipping citizens with the knowledge and skills necessary to respond effectively to emergencies.
2. METHODOLOGY
The research is based on an analysis of civil protection exercises conducted in Zagreb, focusing on two major drills held last year: one simulating a radiological incident and another involving the rescue of multiple individuals from a complex of three large buildings. Data was gathered from official reports, expert evaluations, and observations of exercise performance. Furthermore, the study incorporates insights from real-life emergencies, such as an earthquake and a severe storm, to evaluate how past experiences have shaped current preparedness strategies. Public education efforts were also analyzed through participation levels and effectiveness in raising awareness about disaster response measures.
3. RESULTS
Findings indicate that civil protection exercises significantly contribute to improving coordination, decision-making speed, and operational efficiency among emergency services, including medical teams, firefighters, and law enforcement. While exercises help identify shortcomings in response strategies, real-life emergencies have further exposed gaps in inter-agency coordination and resource management. The study highlights the importance of continuous training and system improvements to address these challenges. Additionally, public awareness initiatives have proven effective in educating citizens about emergency preparedness, though further engagement and outreach efforts are necessary to enhance overall societal resilience. The combination of structured exercises and public education is essential for strengthening crisis readiness in the City of Zagreb
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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