2008 Hazard Pandemic 
Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.
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Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. In the UK, the term 'disaster' is not used: 'major incident' is preferred. Was this not a disaster?
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different.
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
JUNE 27, 2017
The 2008 hotel attacks in Mumbai would have been difficult if not impossible without technology. An unbiased external Risk Assessment can render independent opinion and help avoid risk bias Adopt an all-hazards approach to contingency planning and response. Anyone can become an expert at chaos with little effort. Media presence?
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