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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. In an era of threats and vulnerabilities that are increasing in complexity we need to simplify the process.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying. We know that it is a primeval instinct to panic buy in response to an incident and whatever authorities say will not stop it.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying. We know that it is a primeval instinct to panic buy in response to an incident and whatever authorities say will not stop it.