ABSTRACT
The United Kingdom (UK), not generally exposed to serious natural disasters like major earthquakes and extreme weather events, but experiences flooding, landslides, terrorist incidents, major fires, accidents and flood risk which could increase fourfold by 2080 (Kapucu, 2009). The national ‘civil protection and emergency response’ strategy specifies who is responsible for: identifying and mitigating risks; responding to emergencies when they arise; and how responses are delivered. The Social Market Foundation suggests that disaster management will be one of the six key challenges for local government over the next 20 years, resulting mainly from climate change (Corfe and Keohane, 2017).
