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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. I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Herbane 2010. Field 2018). Alexander, D.

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