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Emergencyplanning 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, emergencyresponse capability cannot be neglected.
trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster RiskReduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2
It is important to understand the relative nature of risk in geographical terms, with respect to the co-occurrence of different kinds of risk, and so as to prioritise risk management interventions. Emergencyplanning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic.
Reality: Emergencyresponse should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 58: For every dollar [pound, euro, shekel] spent on disaster riskreduction, between four and 11 dollars are saved in damage and losses avoided. Reality: Cost-benefit ratios are largely a form of "urban myth".
Mami Mizotori, the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster RiskReduction (UNDRR) stated in the mid-term report of the Sendai Framework that "progress [in implementing the SFDRR] has stalled and, in some cases, reversed". In these countries responsibility for coordinating local emergency actions is delegated to the regions.
National standards should be developed to ensure that emergencyplans 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 emergencyplans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.
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