Volume 12  Issue 2

Comment: The global picture has darkened considerably on many fronts over 2016.

Features: Wildfire evacuations of Fort McMurray; Response and relief in Italy; Resources for oil spill response; Tehran Fire Department profile

Crisis Management: Workplace preparedness; A food recall crisis; The TalkTalk cyber attack; Critical communication platforms; Social Media: The new frontier; Countering false online rumour;Managing cascading effects

Terrorism & security: Contingency planning for firearms attacks; The widening scope of security risk; The growing use of children in terrorism;

Conflict & Humanitarians: Why don’t disasters cause peace?; The impact of IEDs; IEDs: Global solutions for a global threat; Civil defence in times of conflict; Crisis response and peace operations

Attacks on healthcare: Safeguarding healthcare in armed conflict; Protecting the protectors; World Health Organization priorities; Medical transport under fire

Technology & equipment: Tracking epidemics by genome sequencing; Firefighting, cancer and PPE; Keeping blood and vaccines safe; CRJ R&D: Safe surgery in crisis zones; IT in sustainable development goals; Social automation, local humanitarians

In Depth: The topology of crises; Communications U-turns; Extinguish to rescue

Regulars: Events; Looking back; Frontline

Authors: Reita Waara; Navid Bayat; Christoph Schroth; Tony Jaques; Jessica Lennard; Nick Hawkins; Ludovic Blay and Patrick Lagadec; Nicolas Vanderbiest; Olivia Soave and Martin de Maupeou; Brian Dillon; Roger Gomm; Lina Kolesnikova; Ilan Kelman; Christina Wille; Dr Matthew Offord; James Le Mesurier; Cedric de Coning, Linnéa Gelot and John Karlsrud; Ali Naraghi; Casey Brunelle; Erin Kenney; Chaim Rafalowski, Romeo Paredes and Agnieska Cholewinska; David Matthews; Emily Hough; Sarah Ayton, Carly Esteves and Ian Portelli; Alina O’Keeffe; Andrew Schroeder

Articles