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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Bilham 2011. Ambraseys, N.