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Foresight

Emergency Planning

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.107

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

Having excess inventory costs money, uses up warehouse space and transport capacity, which could be used for better selling items and perishable goods with short sell-by-dates, whereby the supermarket takes a loss on any of these items which are thrown away. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

Having excess inventory costs money, uses up warehouse space and transport capacity, which could be used for better selling items and perishable goods with short sell-by-dates, whereby the supermarket takes a loss on any of these items which are thrown away. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying.

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Privacy+ Certification: Should I, or Shouldn’t I?

Prism International

As a member of the PRISM Board of Directors from 2010-2012, we released the first certification program ever offered by the industry. This helped to identify vulnerabilities, especially of I.T. It is now essentially modeled after NAID AAA Certification with more requirements for RIM (operations, transportation, security, employee, etc.)

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.