Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
OUR CHALLENGE
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Resilience is an illusion. In saying that I mean no disrespect to resilience officers, whose work is honourable, vital and necessary. Howe...
Friday, 20 December 2024
Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management
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There is currently intense interest in the possible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the management of disasters. To what extent is ...
Friday, 8 November 2024
Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods
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In the autumn of 1972 I visited a town called Puerto Lumbreras, located in the Province of Murcia in southeastern Spain. It had just bee...
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Resilience is an illusion
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After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. This is not to denigrate the work of r...
Monday, 6 May 2024
A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom
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National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. This short essay ...
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On
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Vajont is located about 100 km due north of Venice in the eastern extension of the Italian Dolomite Mountains, a part of the Alpine arc....
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