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.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 3, 2023

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. One of these is the National Resilience Framework (HM Government 2022). This document has the merit of setting goals and targets for the achievement of resilience in Britain. However, it has serious weaknesses.

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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”.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. i] Muggah, R.

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