Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

On 12th October 2008 I attended a conference at which an epidemiologist stood up and said "My job is to tell you something you don't want to know, and ask you to spend money you haven't got on something you don't think is going to happen." Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Risk Reduction 130

Recovery Diva

APRIL 12, 2023

This new book is the first released book (volume) of the four-volume series of Disaster and Emergency Management Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation with three books forthcoming, each representing one of the four phases of disaster management (mitigation/prevention, preparedness, response, recovery). link] Contributors: Lucy A.

Disaster Recovery 188

Disaster Recovery All-Hazards Hazard Disaster Management 188

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What does all this mean for Britain? The bureaucratic approach Emphasis is quite rightly placed on mitigating these impacts and preparing to adapt our lives and livelihoods to climate change. But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Was this not a disaster?

Management 231

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation 231

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 27, 2017

Today’s perpetrators employ black-bloc tactics (synchronized choreographed attacks and dressing alike wearing masks to escape identification) and flash-mobbing (organizing in real time for instantaneous attack and dispersal with mass numbers) which are difficult to mitigate and counter. Why are tactics becoming more effective?

Risk Management 130

Risk Management Management Internet All-Hazards 130