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

Emergency Planning

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. I have taught it every year since then.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago.