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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.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim rescued it from obscurity and used it in his 1893 book De la division du travail social (translated as The Division of Labour in Society ). We might further tie these concepts into the model of information dissemination propounded by Herman and Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent.

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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. When a major disaster occurs there is an almost reckless desire to be first in print. This also exists outside the academic field.

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The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On

Emergency Planning

The theatre performances drew upon a rich heritage of books, studies, memoirs, plays and music that over the years has commemorated the Vajont tragedy. This was specifically designed to keep the memory alive and help people who are too young to have lived at the time of the disaster to know about it.

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

Emergency Planning

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). His book The Mediterranean Valleys is worth reading for the spare elegance of the prose. On to other things.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for. Answer: Electricity”.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for. Answer: Electricity”.

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