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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. ) 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. Elliott, D.,

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