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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

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. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

In recent years, we have entered a uniquely tumultuous period, one characterized by weird weather, global conflict, and heightened supply chain vulnerability, among other challenges. Threats related to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, heat waves, and pandemics.

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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

NCDP has a rich history, from the early preparedness efforts for governmental and non-governmental systems to the complexities of population recovery, the power of community engagement, and the risks of human vulnerability. Below are reflections and commentary from members of the NCDP team. Read also about our beginnings of NCDP.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. Talks about the need for business to be prepared for three types of hazards, natural, human-caused, and technology-related.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Disaster is fundamentally a social phenomenon.