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

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

emergency management system has met a number of increasingly difficult challenges in recent years, such as extended wildfire seasons, more intense storms, and of course an ongoing global pandemic. . “The U.S.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

Threats related to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, heat waves, and pandemics. Threats related to environmental hazards that might occur in the vicinity of the organization’s facilities: train derailments, plant explosions, chemical spills. Reliable news-gathering organizations. Human tipsters.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Corporate Security Predictions and Trends 2021

Swan Island Network

Corporate Security Predictions and Trends 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic is a stubborn foe and has defied (so far) any kind of “silver bullet” such as the vaccine which finally brought polio under control in the 50s. DOWNLOAD Corporate Security Predictions & Trends 2021 [PDF]. "It Uneven pandemic and economic recovery.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards.