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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. ) A more up-to-date rationale might state that "there is nothing more natural than human propensity to cause disasters." It should be noted that sub-fields of disaster studies may require their own classifications.

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