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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. Field 2018). Herbane 2010. The gradual dissemination of social studies prompted the addition of the noƶsphere (Vernadsky 1945).

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