Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. Then it came to pass.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Notably, the GAR has finally come around to the view that we all bear the burden of reducing disaster risk.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Caffrey 2005. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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