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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

a) As noted by the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning (House of Lords 2021), the NRR is not very "user-friendly" and is not well-known. In the new version of the NRR natural hazards are given shorter descriptions and less prominence than that attributed to hostile risks. (f) HL Paper no.

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

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Korkmaz 2021. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Ozmen, H.B.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. As you audit your emergency plans, you are likely to have identified areas for improvement.

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". There are also areas that are not so popular with researchers, and one of these is emergency planning. In addition the city's emergency plan has been comprehensively revised.