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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

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.