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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All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Risk Reduction 130

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. In putting individuals at the centre of a diagram of actions we see people either crushed between the rock of hazards and the hard place of risk-informed sustainable development or as protagonists in combatting the former with the latter.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Caffrey 2005. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130