Civil emergency whole system preparedness: 2025 report

Footnotes

1. Resilience is defined as “the capacity of an individual, community or system to adapt in order to sustain an acceptable level of function, structure and identity" Charles Edwards; Resilient Nation; Demos; 2009. SG considers resilience to be the capacity of an individual, community or system to adapt in order to sustain an acceptable level of function, structure and identity.

2. The Report refers to preparedness throughout and considers preparedness to be; being in a state of readiness to prepare, prevent, mitigate for, react to and recover from a civil contingencies emergency. For this report, disaster preparedness is used interchangeably with emergency preparedness; “Disaster preparedness consists of a set of measures undertaken in advance by governments, organisations, communities, or individuals to better respond and cope with the immediate aftermath of a disaster, whether it be human-induced or caused by natural hazards. ... Disaster preparedness plays an important role in building the resilience of communities”. the EU’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.