Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. By convention, conflict, warfare and disease epidemics are excluded.
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