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We consider an overview of city evacuation policy with particular reference to the United Kingdom and using a conceptual framework which considers evacuations and invacuations to be pedagogical. Taking an historical perspective, with a focus on the United Kingdom, the chapter considers the reasons for a gradual move from a policy of city evacuation in WWII towards an ‘invacuation’ policy in the Cold War. It then explores more recent policies of ‘flexible response’ to a range of contingencies with mixed invacuation/evacuation policies being proposed. We illustrate this with an examination of websites for evacuation/invacuation preparedness in UK cities. Recent trends in mobility, social media and communication technologies present increasing interdisciplinary problems for evacuation modelling.
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Notes
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The case study covers three UK cities. The names of the cities have been changed and accordingly the names of the local resilience forums and local policy documents have been altered.
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The names of the national official documents have not been changed and direct quotes are being used.
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The names of the local official documents have been changed and no direct quotes are used either from the policy documents or the websites.
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Preston, J., Kolokitha, M. (2015). City Evacuations: Their Pedagogy and the Need for an Inter-disciplinary Approach. In: Preston, J., et al. City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0_1
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