Issues Resulting from the Use of the Crisis Management Terminology in the Czech Legal Framework

Abstract

The crisis management ranks among young disciplines where the terminology is rather variable. The reason is, in particular, the fact that the crisis management comprises approaches to special natural, anthropogenic, social, economic or corporate management events. As a result, individual departments and experts created (and still are creating) their own terms. Generally, the terms used in the crisis management might have different meanings in some cases, or may even contradict each other or are problematic or unsuitable in terms of etymology. These are, in particular, the various forms of the following terms: crisis, crisis management, danger, threat, jeopardy, risk, risk management or risk analysis.