CLASSIFICATION OF LEXICAL UNITS FOR “NATURAL DISASTERS” IN ENGLISH

Abstract

This article presents a comprehensive taxonomy for classifying lexical units relevant to natural disasters. The taxonomy was developed through an extensive review of existing disaster related vocabularies, taxonomies as well as in accordance with the decree at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Munich Re insurance Company (Munich RE).

Keywords

natural disasters, CRED, Munich RE, biological, geophysical, meteorological, hydrological, climatological, extra‐terrestrial