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. 1] The best solution to this problem is to promote inclusiveness in emergency preparedness at all levels.

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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. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. I have taught it every year since then.

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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. The framework changed with the Budget Control Act in 2011, which led to the emergence of a more focused and proactive funding model from 2012-2020, and a lessened reliance on reactive supplemental appropriations.

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