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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. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

One only hopes that land-use planning will stem the flood of new construction in areas that are prone to inundation by rivers that burst their banks and seas that rise up and surge inland, eating away at properties and coastal defences as they go. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. A view on how to mitigate earthquake damages in Turkey from a civil engineering perspective. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H. Korkmaz 2021. Ozmen, H.B.

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. There has recently been a surge of research interest in disaster and conflict (ref). The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a cascading disaster with global ramifications.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. The GAR notes that "we all live in communities".

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. ACT – Take quick and decisive action to mitigate or eliminate the impact of a threat. Adaption : Alert & Collaborate through Public Warning.