Conceptions of Emergency Management Policy Formation and their Implementation
Modern society expects a policy that promotes growth economy, meets rapidly increasing demandsand ensures welfare work. This requires developing technologies that produce both new observable andlatent risks. As a result of modernization both the number and the extent of disasters increases, new kindsof emergency situations arise. It is the State's responsibility to ensure security of the public. Therefore itaims to develop an effective Emergency Management (EM) System. The creation or development of anysystem primarily starts from formation of a policy focusing on its main problems. In order to improveperformance if EM policy it is necessary to formulate it properly and consistently implement it. Thereforethe aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the features of formation and implementation of EM policy.In the first chapter the concepts of formation of EM policy are assessed, the levels of implementationare identified. In the others peculiarities and problems of each level (national, decentralized and privatesector) of policy implementation are analyzed.In order to achieve this aim, the author has analyzed works of policy oriented scientists, EM policyplans of foreign countries, other documents presenting practical issues of formation and implementationof EM policy. Also practice in Lithuania was investigated by presenting a survey questionnaire for theEM system professionals and for the public.
