Croatian Crisis Management System's Response to Covid-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of a Systemic Resilience Model

• DOI: 10.7906/indecs.18.4.1
• Publication Date: 2020-11-05T20:19:11Z
• Authors: Armano Srbljinovic; Jasmina Božic; Brian Fath
• Keywords: Resilience; Cohesion (chemistry); Crisis Management

We analyse the Croatian crisis management system's response to COVID-19 pandemic in terms of Fath, Dean, and Katzmair's [1] model resilience social systems.We find that system has successfully completed one cycle model.However, if is achieve resilience, it also needs replace regime from before with a new will simultaneously enable life relative normalcy contain an excessive spread virus.Strengthening cohesion more bottom-up, emergent leadership might facilitate search for regime.Small, local outbreaks represent small-scale disturbances provide opportunities development bottom-up local, county, municipal city-levels national level.The used this article better conveys underlying complexity systems than "the hammer dance" model, whereas latter suited public communication.Future work should extend case study modelling approaches, sample countries, time covered.It can be extended lower, sub-national, as well higher, supra-national levels, such EU.