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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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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

In reality, it is at least equally likely that the major burden the UK will have to bear will involve natural hazards such as storms, heatwaves, wildfire or cold and snow. In the new version of the NRR natural hazards are given shorter descriptions and less prominence than that attributed to hostile risks. (f)

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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).

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017. Global probabilistic assessment of risk from natural hazards for the Global Assessment Report 2013 (GAR13). The 'should ratio'. link] Di Mauro, M. (ed.)

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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. I recommend going back to vulnerability and endeavouring to identify, understand and reduce it. References Alexander, D.E. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. Holling, C.S Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Manyena, B.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. Journal of the International Association for M athematical Geology 8(6): 649-655. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Takeuchi and D. Paton 2017. Forging a paradigm shift in disaster science. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. first edition 1962). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 222 pp. Meiland, J.W.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts.