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Online learning with the Emergency Planning College

Crisis Response Journal

Rob Fagan explores the Emergency Planning College's (EPC) online resources for remote learning and training and finds that the organisation has moved swiftly and efficiently to adapt to the surge in demand. By Rob Fagan

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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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Disaster Accountability Project

Disaster Zone Podcast

Disaster Accountability Project has successfully advocated for the release of millions of dollars of disaster relief and recovery funds after Superstorm Sandy, investigated deficiencies in emergency planning surrounding 19 commercial U.S. Haiti and Nepal. Haiti and Nepal.

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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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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. Secondly, it should not be used as a substitute for thinking, creativity and human interaction.

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Weather: its impact on society, emergency planning and response 

Crisis Response Journal

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Bill Peterson introduces a regular blog on weather-related disasters, crisis preparedness and response By Bill Peterson

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How to Create and Leverage a Business Continuity Checklist for Emergency Planning

Alert Media

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