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

Emergency Planning

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. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. I have taught it every year since then. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Hence, 'community' is about influence.