Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JUNE 9, 2019
Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) 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.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
JUNE 20, 2020
By 2008, the scenario was more or less complete, with the exception of the recovery phase, which has remained difficult to predict ever since (recovery from the 1918-1920 pandemic took about five years, but it included recovery from the First World War and it led into the Great Depression of 1929). Disasters are participatory events.
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