National Fire Protection Association
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
The fire at a Thai nightclub in early August 2022 was all too familiar. Many of the details emerging are eerily similar to The Station nightclub fire which claimed the lives of 100 people and injured 230 more in February of 2003. The smoke developed index is the same range for all three classifications.
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). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.
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Emergency Planning
JULY 5, 2019
It lacks the spatial dimension of the 1960s work of the geographers Torsten Hägerstrand (1968) and his colleagues, but it has all the other components. Sadly, a follow-the-herd mentality all too easily develops among researchers. Approaches to emergency management teaching at the Master's level. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
OCTOBER 26, 2023
In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. residents since the Civil War. The memories of working on these projects stay with me to this day, as the U.S.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JANUARY 19, 2022
The prior iteration also included critical focuses like creating a culture of preparedness and simplifying bureaucracy as important nods to basic challenges in disaster management. Amidst all of this, we are overly dependent on a shadow budget for disaster response and relief that no one is planning.
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