Model of Effective Civil-Military Collaboration in Natural Disaster Risk Management

The concept of effective and proactive natural disaster risk management represents a highly complex phenomenon researched in different scientific disciplines. While the nature of the events that trigger risk scenario and resources that need to be protected are quite clearly defined, there is no such similar compliance level regarding the response. In most countries, civil (emergency response units) and military (modelled forces) structures represent the basis for effective natural disasters risk management. Full-scale collaboration and prompt corrective action during mitigation phase are prerequisites for successful task completion, which poses the necessity of effective civil—military collaboration model development. In this paper, the different approaches aimed to effective disaster collaboration are analysed. Also, the side aim of this chapter is stewarded to in-depth, objective analysis of current state in Republic of Serbia within the field.