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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Of course, major accidents are disasters. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.