Emergency Planning
AUGUST 3, 2023
The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. It explains its own rationale and presents the 89 'risks' one by one. Hence, the risk register largely discusses hazards and threats, not risks sensu stricto. (c)
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Korkmaz 2021.
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CCEM Strategies
MARCH 17, 2023
Provincial and local authorities are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their regions and together, they work to create and test emergency plans that will ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, long before an incident occurs. Permalink
Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Notably, the GAR has finally come around to the view that we all bear the burden of reducing disaster risk.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all. The reconstruction was a long-drawn out process.
CCEM Strategies
JULY 24, 2018
This is because, long before an incident occurs, CI operators work with governments to create and test emergency plans to ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, to deal with unforeseen disruptions. Without CI, societies can’t function—and this is never truer than during an emergency.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b)
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