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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. Standardised,"all hazards" emergency planning methodology applied at all levels. 1] Domoto, A.,

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. The need to include military strategy and the strategic politics of defence in our studies would unbalance them. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al.