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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

If we look at major emergencies in the UK over the last 25 years or so, there have been significant deficiencies in the response in just about every case. In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019).

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

difficulties associated with procuring reliable, intelligible information being in the wrong place at the wrong time general uncertainty in the evolution of the epidemic These, then, are the possible building blocks of scenarios that could be used for future planning. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. Spinney, L. Jonathan Cape, London, 352 pp.

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SIA and ESA Express Support for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Security Industry Association

This clearinghouse provides critical resources for implementing balanced, holistic school safety programs across a range of topics from mental health to school climate and emergency planning. We also strongly support the inclusion of the Luke and Alex School Safety Act within this bipartisan measure.

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ALERT READY: TIPS TO PREPARE YOUR BUSINESS FOR THE NATIONAL PUBLIC ALERTING SYSTEM

CCEM Strategies

Now that the Canadian government has launched Alert Ready - Canada’s National Public Alerting System, it’s important to consider how this affects your business’ emergency plans , and how to modify them moving forward. Now that you have the steps to re-evaluate your existing emergency plans, it’s time to put them to the test!

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Australian Journal of Emergency Management 27(1): 27-33. Gordon 2018. Haynes 2012. Authoritarianism and the Internet. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457.

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

Emergency Planning

doi: 10.1108/DPM-08-2018-0263 NACLA Report on the Americas 43(4): 32-36, doi: 10.1080/10714839.2010.11725505 [vii] Sarmiento, Juan Pablo, Suzanne Polak and Vicente Sandoval 2019. An evidence-based urban DRR strategy for informal settlements. Disaster Prevention and Management 28(3): 371-385.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Field 2018). Journal of Emergency Management 11(1): 59-72. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Currently, there is renewed interest in the relationship between conflict and disasters, or, if the reader prefers, conflict and other forms of disaster (e.g. Elliott, D.,