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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. The problem has been the abyss between planning, preparedness and practice. The plans were not connected to anything. Murphy, S.,

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). For example, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 are united in their quest for justice and decent living conditions. Hence, 'community' is about influence.

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