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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Herbane 2010. Barbat 2010. Caffrey 2005. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al. Field 2018).

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