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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. 1] The best solution to this problem is to promote inclusiveness in emergency preparedness at all levels.

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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. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. I have taught it every year since then.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) 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. Krausmann, E.,