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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Early classifications of disasters tended to dwell upon the kinds of physical forces involved, and relate them to the geosphere, biospehere, hydrosphere and atmosphere (Tank 1976). Alexander, D. Alexander, D.E.

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