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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. It is also unrealistic to imagine that emerging technology in any of its forms will save us from disaster.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

Perhaps technological innovation will one day bring this issue under control, but there is no sign of this at present. 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.

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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. L3Harris Technologies' BeOn PPT App. L3Harris Technologies' BeOn PPT App.

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

In the light of climate change, technological risks and migration, we will soon need civil protection systems that are an order of magnitude more powerful than those that we have now. Make emergency planning and management a key profession: develop it nationally. Society is grappling with powerful technological change.

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10 Technology-Driven Tools for Hurricane Preparedness and Business Continuity

BryghtPath

As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of these storms, companies must leverage cutting-edge technologies to enhance their preparedness and ensure continuity.

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Seeing and Hearing: Underrated Skills?

Emergency Planning

The Information Technology Age is of course still very young and it remains to be seen how humanity will cope with it and reach some kind of reconciliation. We tap away at the keyboard to write, not to read. This is perhaps not surprising given that the amount of material available to us to absorb is simply overwhelming.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

Technology compounds the problem. The result is a sort of ‘alternative reality’, in which things are as they are, not because this is a reasonable outcome, but because people have convinced themselves that this is what they believe. As long ago as 1997 Henry Quarantelli observed that it “leads a double life.