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Pandemic

Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

Image: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In terms of its scope, Covid-19 is like no other disaster that has occurred in the last 100 years, since, in fact, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 killed more people than both world wars combined, and contributed to the end of the First World War. IRDR Report 2020-01.

Emergency Planning

Emergency Planning Pandemic Logistics Vulnerability

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. Natural Disasters.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard

Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

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