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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

Indeed, someone ought to do a study of the "book of the disaster" and see who gets the award for the earliest "instant book" to commemorate the damage, destruction and casualties. It is obvious that much of what is written will be read by practically no one beyond the authors and perhaps a couple of referees.

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Mon apprentissage - Il mio tirocinio - My apprenticeship - Meine Lehre

Emergency Planning

Consider this exchange between the authors of Lord of the Flies and For Whom the Bell Tolls. "He To appreciate irony to the full you must have experienced the Baroque (as a culture, not an art form - see my book Confronting Catastrophe ; I was much influenced by José Antonio Maravell, a Spanish historian of the Baroque).

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GEJET - Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (and Nuclear Release) - Tenth Anniversary

Emergency Planning

The story of Okawa is movingly described in Richard Lloyd Parry's remarkable book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan. Overlooked by the local authority they were struggling with a care burden that was making their lives intolerable, but they soldiered on with strength and fortitude, uncomplaining. I was in a magnitude 6.8

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. In the newly published book ‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’, by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, doing away with the BIA is one of the key elements in their business continuity manifesto.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. In the newly published book ‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’, by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, doing away with the BIA is one of the key elements in their business continuity manifesto.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. During the interview, they talked about telemetry.