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Issues in Disaster Affected Area

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Disasters can occur due to natural or anthropogenic activities. The disasters could be sudden onset (as in case of earthquake, fire, and flood, explosion in industry, and hurricane) or prolonged onset (such as civil conflict or drought). They are abrupt generally shocks which are non-routine events and would affect social, ecological and economic stability of the affected region. Disaster synonyms include “calamity”, “catastrophe”, “emergency” and “crisis”.

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  1. Biomedical Waste, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Church Street, Bangalore, 560001, India

    Ramesha Chandrappa

  2. Chemical Engineering Department, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

    Diganta Bhusan Das

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Chandrappa, R., Das, D.B. (2012). Issues in Disaster Affected Area. In: Solid Waste Management. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28681-0_13

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