There is a small earthquake going on, but we can barely feel it yet – a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. But it is below the radar of policy-makers. It suggests that the force that will eventually take our struggling local economies by the scruff of their necks...
“Manchester is to get its own directly elected mayor with powers over transport, housing, planning and policing in a devolution deal worth more than £1bn.” Guardian, 3 Nov 2014 The trouble with economic recovery is that someone else always has to do it - the...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
