Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment
55 years ago

Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment

Wired  

Lucy Easthope is a professional emergency planner. “We’re having a little bit of a—I don’t know if you can call it a renaissance—maybe just a ‘naissance,’” says Easthope, a professor in practice of risk and hazard at the University of Durham. Actually, it’s great to say: OK, when something happens, I’m ready.” Right now, that something feels like it could be anything: another pandemic, another international conflict, another breakdown of global trade. But as disaster planners, for us, it’s more lots and lots of sequential smaller events caused by changing meteorology. And a constant marinade for our work is chronic conditions—so things like social care collapsing, or very poor financial situations, austerity—and also, obviously, conflict.

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