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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. ) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Field 2018). Like disease outbreaks, conflict is a disaster in its own right.

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