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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. Despite the obvious need for mitigation, emergency response capability cannot be neglected.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

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Online learning: Being prepared in the modern world 

Crisis Response Journal

In this month’s blog on free preparedness training and education it’s Robert Fagan’s pleasure to highlight the course Staying Safe: How to Be Prepared in the Modern World from the United Kingdom’s Emergency Planning College (EPC). By Robert Fagan

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Can we stop the rot in academia?

Emergency Planning

In effect, the pandemic saw the triumph of the marketisation of higher education, a process that had been steadily accelerating for decades before Covid-19 struck. In the meantime it would be useful to repair the processes of governance in higher education. Nevertheless, it remains an ideal, even if a distant one.

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

Emergency Planning

In the United Kingdom, the status of emergency planning has declined while it has been enhanced in other countries. Absurdly, it is not treated as a profession and has no career progression or higher education requirements (I should add that the field has an intellectual history that stretches back 101 years).

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For New Research Students: How to Stop Floundering

Emergency Planning

A better hypothesis would involve an educated guess about why flood response is poor. To ascertain whether the response to floods is good or bad is a matter of judgement and perhaps appropriate measurement. It does not tax the brain very much. Hypotheses are about causal relationships.

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