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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c)

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). References Alexander, D.E.