Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
The GAR uses the 'pressure-and-release' model of Wisner et al, (2004) in an adapted form, consisting of: context. It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).
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Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
What does all this mean for Britain? In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. In the response to civilian emergencies, all countries experience a certain tension between centralisation and devolution. Above all, this is a matter of local pride, not merely expediency.
Security Industry Association
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
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Reciprocity
AUGUST 24, 2022
Are there differences at all? Not long ago, risk managers concerned themselves mainly with hazards such as fires and floods; or in the financial sector, loan defaults (credit risk). They’re all critical, Scheitlin says. How are you going to put it all together? Again, nobody is quite sure.). Which is best?
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