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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". Gomez 2015. Gaillard, J-C.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

São Paulo, Brazil’s financial capital and one of the 10 most populated cities, nearly ran out of water in 2015, when the main reservoir fell below 4% capacity. Threats come in fashions and cyber is the big threat of the moment. In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

São Paulo, Brazil’s financial capital and one of the 10 most populated cities, nearly ran out of water in 2015, when the main reservoir fell below 4% capacity. Threats come in fashions and cyber is the big threat of the moment. In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

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. The tragedy lies in their non-observance and the paucity of retrofitting. It is these that collapse. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.