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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. They are managed by the country's local resilience forums.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The term ‘civil protection system’ describes coordinated national, regional and local arrangements designed to plan for, manage and respond to major emergencies, and to initiate recovery from them. Emergency management and response should be a civilian responsibility and should be fully demilitarised.