Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Nowhere is this more true than in the gradual conversion of social media from a source of community cohesion and a means of informing oneself to a purveyor of "alternative facts" and unscientific fantasy, a "manufactured reality" that people nevertheless believe. The goal is ever receding. Therein lies a huge challenge for all of us.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

Regional coordination should ensure that local efforts to instil civil protection and respond to emergencies are supported by mutual assistance and resources from higher levels of government. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans. Plans should be networked. The citizen 4.1

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Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Emergency response has three ingredients: plans, procedures and improvisation. They ensure that responsibilities are fully assigned, that participants in the response have well-defined roles and that needs are identified in time to supply them.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Goods and services imported into a country with foreign funding tend to benefit the manufacturers and suppliers. Myth 59: Cost-benefit data will convince decision makers to invest in disaster risk reduction.

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