Rather briefer report from remainder of conference...
Met a nice man from Mexico who had just arrived and was (like me) expecting to be able to walk to the venue. We shared a taxi. His talk was on Physical vulnerability of critical facilities in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Other papers I found especially interesting included several reporting various indices and tools to assess and compare disaster preparedness, readiness and resilience, including these from the Argonne National Laboratory:
Assessing community and region emergency-services capabilities
Community resilience: measuring a community’s ability to withstand
A much more complicated issue is how to co-ordinate responses to exceptional events, such as the July 2005 bombings on the London public transport system. One paper reported the use of mathematical modelling to optimise the use of resources when responding to mass casualties across multiple incident scenes. A major issue with this work may be persuading key decision makers that mathematical models have something valuable to offer, and helping them to understand how and why the models may work.
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