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

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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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. ) Natural hazard impacts on industry and critical infrastructure: natech risk drivers and risk management performance indicators. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019.