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Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment
Governments, businesses, and even militaries pay for the help of experts to help them prepare for the worst. In a world lurching from disaster to disaster, they're doing so more often.
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. But where there are fairly obvious geographical, meteorological, and seismic threats, it’s seen as good planning by the state to be ready—to prepare for things like tsunamis and earthquakes in New Zealand, for example. One of the things that I found very difficult was they couldn’t focus past the very short term, and one of the tricks in disaster recovery is to really be able to project ahead.
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