Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

At a lesser scale, sabotage, targeted assassination, cyber attacks and political interference through social media are increasingly capable of causing runaway chains of adverse consequences. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

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: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Within this compass, most decision-making can be judged rational.

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