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

Emergency Planning

National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”. The local level.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

It is important to understand the relative nature of risk in geographical terms, with respect to the co-occurrence of different kinds of risk, and so as to prioritise risk management interventions. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Planning is more a process than an outcome.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

For example: Risk assessments and emergency and business continuity plans now need to consider Indigenous knowledge, climate change, cultural safety, and impacts on vulnerable persons, animals, places or things. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s The team at CCEM can help. Contact us today to get started!

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Reality: The imposition of martial law after disaster is extremely rare and implies that normal mechanisms of government were never effective in any way. It is not so.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The odds are being stacked against us when we fail to act on science and early warnings to invest in prevention, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.”. million lives, affecting 4.2

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.