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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Disaster is fundamentally a social phenomenon. Alexander, D. Alexander, D.E.