Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. 1] The best solution to this problem is to promote inclusiveness in emergency preparedness at all levels.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

Hospitality 130

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

The increasing vulnerability and dwindling redundancy of life-support systems will aggravate the effect of proliferating failure among critical infrastructure networks. Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. Preamble 1.1

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

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). Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'.

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