Contingency planning for earthquakes in Asia

Nathaniel Forbes

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2009, vol. 3, issue 4, 356-367

Abstract: For private sector business continuity managers and public sector emergency managers alike, the potential risk and impact of a catastrophic earthquake in one of Asia’s manufacturing centres, such as the Philippines, or in one of Asia’s financial centres, such as Singapore, are hard to ignore. This paper examines the state of preparation, mitigation, response and recovery (the phases of emergency management) and analyses the risk and impact (phases of business continuity management) of an earthquake in Asia. The paper concludes that companies and communities in Asia will recover from a catastrophic seismic event only if business continuity and emergency management professionals can learn from one another.

Keywords: earthquake in Asia; supply chain risk; evacuation time; emergency management in Asia; business continuity in Asia; BCM in Asia; EM and BCM; earthquake impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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