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.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. One of the most intransigent problems with the predecessor of the Sendai Framework, Hyogo Framework for Action, 2005-2015, was its resolute reliance on a 'top-down' approach. Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Taxonomy can start with basic distinctions (natural, technological, social, intentional and composite) and then proceed to further divisions and subdivisions. Caffrey 2005. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286. Krausmann, E.,

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