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

Emergency Planning

Increasing dependency on critical infrastructure makes the country ever more vulnerable to proliferating technological failure, whether it is caused by cyber attack, sabotage or natural forces. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Bilham 2011.