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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”. 1] The best solution to this problem is to promote inclusiveness in emergency preparedness at all levels. Ensure that the people who produce the plans are also the managers--i.e.,

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale. The struggle to create community resilience pits organised collective action against individualism. But how does this translate into community resilience?

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

A few weeks ago, I wrote a bulletin on scenario planning and how under the new requirement of Operational Resilience for FCA and PRA, regulated organisations now have a requirement to determine ‘extreme but plausible scenarios’ to see if they would continue delivering their services if the said scenario occurred.

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

A few weeks ago, I wrote a bulletin on scenario planning and how under the new requirement of Operational Resilience for FCA and PRA, regulated organisations now have a requirement to determine ‘extreme but plausible scenarios’ to see if they would continue delivering their services if the said scenario occurred.

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Business Impacts of Climate Change

Disaster Recovery

The meat-processing business was severely hit during the 2011 Great Plains drought and many businesses had to either shut down or shift operations to an alternate location. Climate Change Resiliency. Climate change resiliency initiatives also indirectly make reuse, recycling and reprocessing more prevalent. Resource Management.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Bilham 2011. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 27(1): 27-33. Ambraseys, N. Ling and K.