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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Hence, public discourse and concerns could conceivably change overnight (as they did in the USA after "Nine-Eleven" in 2001). 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.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the frequency of natural disasters and epidemics. According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. billion in damages ( [link] ).

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