Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I end this set of reflections with two models that are intended to show how reality is created by the power of perceptions and their transformation into shared opinions through socialisation using the powerful new tools that are available in modern mass communication, particularly social media. Further reading Chomsky, N. Durkheim, E.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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). Emergency management is still languishing in the doldrums in the United Kingdom.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The current system for managing major incidents and disasters in the United Kingdom was devised after the Broadwater Farm, Tottenham, riots of 1986 and reflects a preoccupation with public order. Training for major emergencies is insufficient and poorly managed. In the UK emergency planners do not manage the events they plan for.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.

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