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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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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Migration, conflict, climate extremes, proliferating technological failure and associated consequences all pose this kind of threat. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Hence, public discourse and concerns could conceivably change overnight (as they did in the USA after "Nine-Eleven" in 2001).

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. A more up-to-date rationale might state that "there is nothing more natural than human propensity to cause disasters." Krausmann, E.,

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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. Now, technology can go a long way in automating these answers and making you a more resilient organization. Where is your inventory?

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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. Ever since the disaster the local administration has been struggling to rehabilitate the original settlement, which lies decaying and cordoned off.