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This chapter describes the formation process of natural disasters, environmental (ecological) disasters, and human-induced disasters. Disaster formation is the process of disaster-causing and harm forming under certain disaster-formative environment, i.e., the disaster impact which is the product of the interaction of hazard, exposure, and disaster-formative environment. Disaster impacts can be divided into direct and indirect ones, or losses and damages.

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Shi, P. (2019). Disaster Formation Process. In: Disaster Risk Science. IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6689-5_3

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