From pandemics and cyberattacks to terrorism and power blackouts, the A to Z on planning for the unplannable
Just how exactly do you plan for the unplannable? As we've seen in the last few years with the Covid-19 pandemic and various acts of terrorism, there are innumerable known and unknown emergencies and risks which a country might face.
For this episode of the Brainstorm podcast, we've brought together three experts in the area of emergency planning (one of whom literally wrote the book on risk planning for Ireland) to find out how you plan for and deal with an emergency.
Our man in the hard-hat and high-vis gear is Ronan Kelly and the experts are Prof Caroline McMullan (architect of the National Risk Assessment for Ireland and Programme Director for the MSc in Emergency Management course at DCU), Prof Mark Maguire (anthropologist with expertise in security and counterterrorism at Maynooth University) and Prof Lucy Easthope (a professor in practice and co-founder of the After Disaster Network, international adviser on disaster recovery and the author of When The Dust Settles)
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The credits: this episode of the RTÉ Brainstorm podcast was produced by Ciaran O'Byrne, research was by Julia Kennedy and it was recorded by Mark Dwyer. RTÉ Brainstorm is edited by Jim Carroll and the assistant editor is Aoife Ryan-Christensen. The series is proudly supported by Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland.
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