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First Hurricane Sandy appeared to have cast the US presidential elections into the shadows, while President Obama’s victory yesterday is likely to have caused the reverse. The apocalyptic scenes from the self-styled capital of the world will probably be forgotten by most outside the US ...

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  • Julian Stephens

    November 07, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    This is an interesting idea. Effectively everyone could benefit in terms of reduced risk/cost by sharing of resources. However this would require sophisticated coordination and sharing of data. Some contingency planning could be undertaken but also some real-time response would be needed as most crisis situations cannot be predicted far ahead.