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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

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d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Field 2018).

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

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The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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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.