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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. We classify disasters in order to deal with "more manageable conceptual units." Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.