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%. For example, civil aviation is particularly vulnerable. Therefore, the world community must take action immediately."

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Pandemic Tourism Hospitality Transportation 130

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. It is these that collapse. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 31(3): Korkmaz, K.A.

Natural Hazard 183

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

Distribution of vulnerability. Plenty of evidence exists to show that disasters have a disproportionate impact upon poor and vulnerable people. The role of emergency planning. Since the start of Covid-19 we have seen the failure of emergency planning, which is an indication of failure to provide foresight.

Emergency Planning 130

Emergency Planning Pandemic Logistics Vulnerability 130

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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Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130