ESRC-COMPLEXITY SEMINAR SERIES
SEMINAR 6: Post 7/7 and 9/11: What lessons have been learnt on evacuating, following a major disaster? What can state of the art modelling, simulations and a complexity theory approach contribute to policy?
SESSION 1: DAVID BARNES, "SETTING THE CONTEXT: UK RESILIENCE: NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SEEMS"
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ABSTRACT
The Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) is the Central Government unit that coordinates resilience policy across Government. It has the mission ‘to improve the UK’s resilience to absorb, respond to and recover from potential disruptive challenges of all types’. The current legislative framework around contingency planning and management was enacted in 2004 and places the need to adopt a risk based approach on a statutory basis. At a national level the National Risk Assessment enables this which culminates in the publicly available National Risk Register. The current approach is reviewed and concludes that contingency planning and management is highly complex due to the range of stakeholders, experts, scenarios and consequences that are involved.