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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 UK Government's 13 policy U-turns do not reflect adaptation to dynamic circumstances, but inability to conceive what to do, how to implement it and how to communicate. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

inter-city) transit planning ," 2011). Second, when budget crisis hits services are cut. -- " Without the right transportation planning framework, metropolitan areas are screwed, and that includes the DC area ," 2011 2. Another related concept is intra-district versus inter-district transit (" Making the case for intra-city (vs.

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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). The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Bilham 2011. Alexander, D.E. Ambraseys, N.