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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. Girgin and A.