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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Emergency Planning

Distribution of vulnerability. Plenty of evidence exists to show that disasters have a disproportionate impact upon poor and vulnerable people. The role of emergency planning. Since the start of Covid-19 we have seen the failure of emergency planning, which is an indication of failure to provide foresight.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. For example, civil aviation is particularly vulnerable. Major epidemics and pandemics (what is the difference?)

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Mosalam 2003. It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. It is these that collapse. Whittaker, K.J. Elwood and K.M.