INTERNATIONAL RESCUE OPERATIONS AND EXPERIENCES WITH DEPLOYMENT OF SLOVENIAN CIVIL PROTECTION AND DISASTER RELIEF EXPERTS

Authors

  • Domen Torkar Ministrstvo za obrambo, Uprava RS za zaščito in reševanje, Ljubljana
  • Polona Weiss Zavod za gradbeništvo Slovenije, Ljubljana

Abstract

Provision of relief to other countries hit by a disaster is one of the tasks of Slovenian system of protection against natural and other disasters. International rescue operations conducted as part of international operations and missions also include the deployment of protection, rescue and relief experts. The article deals with two examples of experiences by the Republic of Slovenia in deploying its experts to the affected areas in other countries. Within the EU civil protection mechanism, experts may be deployed as members of EU teams for situation assessment and/or coordination of relief to EU member states or as technical experts.

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Published

19-01-2024

Issue

No. 24 (2010): Ujma

Section

International co-operation

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