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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. I have taught it every year since then.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) The need to include military strategy and the strategic politics of defence in our studies would unbalance them. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Krausmann, E., Necci 2019.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. The severity, the disruptions, the politicization of the response, the inequities, and the pandemics persistence were all predicted in various reports, studies and historical records of prior pandemics.