The National Crisis

Peter Whitbread

Chapter 4 in Disasters and the Media, 1999, pp 46-54 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In common with other post-industrial societies, Britain has a complex infrastructure of transport, utilities, industry, food and social networks. Under normal circumstances we go about our business without giving these essentials a thought, but when they break down the situation can quickly escalate to crisis proportions. Fortunately, although increasing, such breakdown is still rare; despite the complexity of our society few of us will ever be direcdy affected. Moreover, where such breakdown has occurred in recent years, the crisis has been contained at a local or regional level.

Keywords: Central Government; Emergency Service; Government Department; Emergency Planning; Lead Department (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14640-6_4

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