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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Field 2018). Like disease outbreaks, conflict is a disaster in its own right. Caffrey 2005.

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