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How to Mitigate Natech Defence Risks: Insights from the new EU JRC report

Natural hazard-triggered technological (Natech) events represent a significant intersection between environmental phenomena and...

Jul 19, 20244 min read

Introduction As I talked about in my last blog post, health systems are complex things. At their full potential, all components of the...

Jul 7, 20243 min read

A metaphor I often refer to in talks is the concept of lego brick resilience, particularly in the context of health systems, but what...

Jan 3, 20234 min read

Happy New Year to all of you. A time of celebration, of reflection, of goal-setting and ambition driving. Yet sadly a time of year when...

Oct 4, 20223 min read

Just over a week ago I had the pleasure of attending the morning sessions of the #NoNaturalDisasters campaign inaugaral conference in...

Jun 5, 20223 min read

Somehow it is now June 2022 and it seems a long time since I first talked about the impact of the latest legislative change to Emergency...

May 7, 20213 min read

In the United Kingdom, Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) are non-statutory bodies designed to provide a single platform to bring together...

Feb 24, 20214 min read

Many existing statutory and non-statutory requirements underpin the work of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) across...

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