COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT INTO INCIDENT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE: LITHUANIAN AND UKRAINIAN CASE STUDY

The experience of different countries demonstrates that community involvement in response phase of disaster management actions increase the resources of authorities and allow to eliminate consequences with lower costs as well as to earn public trust. The aim of this article is to assess the possibilities of involving communities in incident management system of disasters for effective disaster management from the point of view of management, public administration and law. The authors analyze incident management structure within a disaster and the Lithuanian and Ukrainian legal regulation whether regulations applicable in the aforementioned countries provide for community involvement in disaster management.