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The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On

Emergency Planning

Recently, the site of the disaster has been opened up to tourism, with a visitor centre, guided tours and a protected walkway across the rim of the dam. For better or worse, this is an area in which disaster tourism has come to stay. Marble tablets at the access tunnel to the dam commemorated the loss of life.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Planning is more a process than an outcome. They will need a constant supply of adequate personal protective equipment.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

difficulties associated with procuring reliable, intelligible information being in the wrong place at the wrong time general uncertainty in the evolution of the epidemic These, then, are the possible building blocks of scenarios that could be used for future planning.

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