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

Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

All-Hazards

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response

Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event. But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.

Management

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation

Continuity Professionals Pulse

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

Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

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