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- Civil defence in the 21st century
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- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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2002 legislation The Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 outlined a new approach. Local authorities, representatives of local emergency and welfare services and ‘lifeline utilities’ such as power companies were clustered into regional Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) groups. Each group had to write a plan that took into account the region’s specific disaster risks. These plans were based on ‘the four Rs’: reduction, readiness, response and recovery. The plans aimed to reduce ...
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- Date created
- 11 April 2012
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- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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- https://teara.govt.nz/en/civil-defence/page-2
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