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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Emergency planning excluded emergency planners and was put in the hands of a consortium of medical doctors and politicians, yet half the battle in a pandemic is to manage the logistical, social and economic consequences. To understand the magnitude of the task let me briefly describe an example, that of Covid-19 in one country.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

I end this set of reflections with two models that are intended to show how reality is created by the power of perceptions and their transformation into shared opinions through socialisation using the powerful new tools that are available in modern mass communication, particularly social media. Chomsky 1988. Pantheon Books, New York 306 pp.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

Certain aspects of disaster management are greatly undervalued, and thus poorly researched, but the academic DRR community. 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. Quarantelli, E.L.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years. Keep it simple.

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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. They gave the opportunity to recognise what would need to be done during a viral emergency, what equipment and preparations would be needed, and now society would abruptly change.

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How to use your notification system during hurricanes

everbridge

Emergency operations directives. Enact emergency plans and policies. Sustain communications throughout the hurricane. Attach documents as needed. Situational updates. Provide management, response, teams, and constituents with ongoing status updates as the hurricane progresses, gets worse, or gets better. Safety reminders.

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