The Missing Link: The Need for Disaster Science

ICPEM is delighted to join with our partners - UCL IRDR, the National Preparedness Commisison and the ISRM to host a webinar to discuss the important topic of Disaster Science. 

The recently released House of Lords report into the state of the UK risk and crisis management readiness, ‘Preparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society’, is coruscating in its findings as to the systemic weaknesses that are built into the UK strategic risk and crisis management structures and frameworks, weaknesses that have been repeatedly revealed as the challenges of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic have demonstrated critical gaps and failures.

The fundamental question, asked both in the report and in the wider discussions across multiple sectors, is why weren’t we better prepared for an event that had been predicted, exercised and modelled over a number of years, and whose intrinsic vulnerabilities had been identified on a regular basis from…