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

Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

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. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

All-Hazards

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response

Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. In the UK, the term 'disaster' is not used: 'major incident' is preferred. Was this not a disaster?

Management

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation

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

Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

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