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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. This budget is an ad hoc and non-strategic multi-billion, and with COVID-19, a multi-trillion dollar reaction to disasters. Figure 1: Supplemental appropriations by fiscal year, FY 2000–2021. 1] [link]. _. 1] [link]. [2]

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Between 1995 and 2000, two-thirds of the island’s population was forced to flee to the UK, leaving fewer than 1,200 people on the island, as of 1997. Eruptions destroyed Montserrat’s capital city of Plymouth and the W.

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Between 1995 and 2000, two-thirds of the island’s population was forced to flee to the UK, leaving fewer than 1,200 people on the island, as of 1997. Eruptions destroyed Montserrat’s capital city of Plymouth and the W.