Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

The need to include military strategy and the strategic politics of defence in our studies would unbalance them. 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.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. I have taught it every year since then.

Civil Emergency 130

Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. This budget is an ad hoc and non-strategic multi-billion, and with COVID-19, a multi-trillion dollar reaction to disasters. In its latest iteration it focuses on issues of climate change and equity among others.

Pandemic 52

Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52