Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vox clamantis in deserto : to examine this aspect of the disaster one would have to face up to difficult issues, such as corruption, political decision making, people's expectations of public safety, fatalism versus activism, and more. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Ecemis, S.Z. Ozmen, H.B.

Natural Hazard 183

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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.

Civil Emergency 130

Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130