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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). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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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. ) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction policy is heavily influenced by the class of disaster involved.

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Risk Managers: Is Today’s Violence Worse than the 1960’s? Yes, and Why You Should Care (Sorry, Jim and Max)

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Risk Managers, Business Continuity planners and Security personnel take note: this climate will impact your business. The 2008 hotel attacks in Mumbai would have been difficult if not impossible without technology. ​ A quick scan of the headlines will confirm that in the US (and elsewhere) things are getting ugly.