Emergency Planning
JUNE 20, 2020
The role of emergency planning. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. The failure of emergency planning is perhaps the greatest error made in the management of the Covid-19 disaster.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). I have taught it every year since then.
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Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Vox clamantis in deserto : to examine this aspect of the disaster one would have to face up to difficult issues, such as corruption, political decision making, people's expectations of public safety, fatalism versus activism, and more. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Ozmen, H.B.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. I need not repeat them here. Disaster subcultures.
Emergency Planning
JULY 29, 2019
What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.
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