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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Why, then, do we not include it in disaster studies per se?