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Section sizes Section size for Disaster (17 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 3,913 3,913 Definitions 4,551 4,551 Types 1,402 10,138 Related to natural hazards 2,982 2,982 Unrelated to natural hazards 3,636 3,636 Others 2,118 2,118 Impacts 393 3,696 Economic losses 698 698 Human impacts 842 842 Effects of climate change 1,763 1,763 Prevention and response 28 797 Disaster risk reduction 714 714 Disaster response 55 55 Etymology 1,041 1,041 See also 283 283 References 1,378 1,378 External links 579 579 Total 26,376 26,376

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What is the current standard definition of a disaster? Is there a consensus in literature? Does a disaster by definition kill people? Fsikkema (talk) 17:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Examples of natural hazards include: avalanche, coastal flooding, cold wave, drought, earthquake, hail, heat wave, hurricane (tropical cyclone), ice storm, landslide, lightning, riverine flooding, strong wind, tornado, tsunami, volcanic activity, wildfire, winter weather.[6] Anthropogenic hazards can be grouped into societal hazards (criminality, civil disorder, terrorism, war, industrial hazards, engineering hazards, power outage, fire; hazards caused by transportation and environmental hazards. 106.51.242.229 (talk) 14:44, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The closest we have to scholarly consensus argues that disasters result from the interaction between hazard systems and human systems, which make all disasters inherently man made. The current description gives this some credit, but still argues for the natural vs man made dichotomy. I think the wording of "difficult to draw" is misinterpreting the issue with the natural vs man made discussion.

I think it would be more accurate to lead with a description that disasters are human caused (i.e. a tornado is not a disaster until it produces human impacts), and than follow that with a section detail how it is still common to find the natural vs man made dichotomy discussed.

Additionally, I think this article needs a clearer link to disaster vulnerability, which describes a community, individuals, or organizations capacity to experience the negative impacts of disasters.

Finally, my question re: the responses section of the disaster list, is, who is this for? what unit of analysis (individual, organizational, government) is this intended for? Risky Bussiness (talk) 21:56, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I also think "difficult to draw" is not right. Have you got a better wording that also expresses how other non-human systems can sometimes trigger or induce a disaster?

I agree the disaster list in responses is not too useful . In this section I have added something more general on the different ways/phases of managing disasters. Maybe the list itself could be transferred into disaster response as it seems to fit well there.

Speaking of research, I think what is also missing is some data on the numbers of disasters, losses and and economic costs, and trends. On the other hand, the best available data such as that from CRED only covers natural hazard-related disasters, so it might be better to place it in WP natural disaster and include the text as an excerpt in WP disaster Richarit (talk) 17:22, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the last column of the table under "responses" because it was more of a how-to guide. I've broken up that long table and moved it to "classification". EMsmile (talk) 09:33, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if we should look for a better image in the lead. Maybe a 2 x 2 collage would be good. This one seems a bit odd as it's from very long ago and could be seen as U.S. centric (like a lot of Wikipedia's content). I don't have a strong view, just putting this question out there. EMsmile (talk) 13:27, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]