Emergency Planning
JANUARY 5, 2022
People came from far and wide to attach the Renaissance equivalent of ‘Post-It’ notes to the pedestal to express what they thought of the work (Forcellino 2009, p. References Forcellino, Antonio 2009. Despite the immense outpouring of creativity in Florence in that period, people were not satiated with images. The Story of Art.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). I need not repeat them here. The manifestation of community may simply be an expression of the will of the powerful. Disaster subcultures.
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Emergency Planning
JUNE 20, 2020
The role of emergency planning. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. The failure of emergency planning is perhaps the greatest error made in the management of the Covid-19 disaster.
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). I have taught it every year since then.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 31(3): Korkmaz, K.A. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey. Environmental Geology 57: 307-320. Ozmen, H.B.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 11, 2020
When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. It is important to ensure that emergency planning measures are balanced among society's and people's needs.
Emergency Planning
JULY 29, 2019
What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.
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