Recovery after a major disaster is often overlooked – after the heroic rescues, the tales of human suffering and endurance, the statistically-impressive clean-up efforts, the media moves onto the next event, national and international attention dw...

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz covers the military urban survival course he attended from September 18 – 24, 2011, in the area around Halmstad and deals with practical solutions and strategies to survive a worst-case scenario ...

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz provides a further update on his work in survival and crisis preparedness. Day 8: September 15, 2011 EU-collaboration The recent week has been very intense. On the morning of Friday, September 9, a meet...

Andy Marshall, Director of Civil Contingencies for Staffordshire, UK, writes: Staff at the Civil Contingencies Unit (CCU) in Stafford (UK) are currently preparing to run a CBRN response and recovery exercise to validate Staffordshire’s mult...

Editorial Advisory Panel Member, Christo Motz, provides us with an update of his travels and work in resilience and urban survival. Today, Wednesday, September 7, I arrived in Stockholm, for an 18- day working visit to the south of Sweden, during...

The Indian ocean tsunami – the global response; reviewed by Dr Jay Levinson, Adj. Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Member of Crisis Response Journal's Editorial Advisory Panel The chapters in this well-edited book ...

There’s a lively discussion going on at CRJ’s LinkedIn Group at the moment, revolving around a discussion initiated by Ben Proctor. He asks whether we need new plans and doctrines to deal with a world where disorder can be co-ordinat...

We're putting the finishing touches to the August issue of Crisis Response Journal. The main feature will be looking at climate effects on emergency planning and response. We also have reports from Russia, Northern Ireland, Belarus, South Africa, ...

As CRJ went to press last week, news began to emerge of the Grimsvötn volcanic eruption in Iceland, and fears of further aviation disruption have now materialised, though these were not as severe as during last April’s crisis and most ...

Resilience is often seen by some through the lens of how many fire tenders or ambulances can be deployed into the scene of a disaster. Practitioners, however, know that underneath the somewhat numerical approach that can often be deemed suitable b...

Crisis Response Journal has a stand at the Counter-Terror Expo. The event is being held today and tomorrow at Olympia, London. We're on stand N32, so if you happen to be in the area, pay us a visit!

I am at the IAFPA Conference at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore, which is proving to be a fascinating and extremely well-organised event in a fantastic setting. Today, we heard from Changi Airport about how the Icelandic volcano and subsequent c...

Andy Marshall, a member of CRJ’s Editorial Advisory Panel, started an interesting discussion on our LinkedIn Group last week. He asked whether anyone had ever had to prove ‘value for money’ for a publicly funded emergency plan...

Next issue update I’m delighted to announce that Professor Edward Blakely will be starting an in-depth series looking at recovery management in the next issue of CRJ. Ed Blakely has played leading roles in more US disaster recovery programm...

I wouldn’t normally write a news update like this on our blog as there is no shortage of excellent and up-to-date information on the earthquake in New Zealand – the main value of CRJ lies in analysis and reflection. But I thought it ...

Solar activity I was interested to note the BBC’s report that the Sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, triggering warnings of geomagnetic storms. This echoes the article by Dr Tony Phillips and Dr Madhulika Guhathakurta of N...

Welcome to the Crisis Response Journal blog, which we’ll be using to update you with news, event launches, event reviews and emerging themes and topics. We’ll also be giving you updates on our editorial board members and partners. At...