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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

One of these is emergency planning, the process of anticipating needs caused by disaster impacts and making arrangements to satisfy them as well as possible with available resources. Come what may, emergency management is a human activity that requires human input and human reasoning.

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How to use your notification system during hurricanes

everbridge

During a hurricane Response team and Emergency Operations Center activation. Notify and assemble emergency response teams. Emergency operations directives. Enact emergency plans and policies. Manage volunteer availability and coordinate field activities. Attach documents as needed.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Planning is more a process than an outcome. This was contingent upon having plans that would enable the reaction to take place. The second lesson is that there could be a gap, an abyss even, between a pandemic plan and its ability to be activated.

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Can we stop the rot in academia?

Emergency Planning

Those who make the transition from intellectual activity to administration are precipitated into a system that enthusiastically applies principles and techniques that were tried out in business half a century ago and rapidly abandoned because they failed to improve the performance of companies.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. In the United Kingdom, the status of emergency planning has declined while it has been enhanced in other countries. A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them.

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Interpreting the Pandemic for Decision Making and Action

Emergency Planning

The hero (almost always a man, not a woman, who is invariably his loyal supporter) is a young, fit, active, misunderstood visionary, the only person who can see the truth and is prepared to fight for it. One of the greatest lessons is the imperative need to take emergency planning and preparedness more seriously. What nonsense!

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