Editing Disaster (section)

=== Unrelated to natural hazards ===
{{See also|Hazard}}
[[File:UA Flight 175 hits WTC south tower 9-11 edit.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|[[Airplane crash]]es and [[terrorist attack]]s are examples of man-made disasters: they kill and injure people, destroy and damage property, and cause pollution. The pictured example is the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001 at the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in New York City.]]
Human-made disasters are serious harmful events caused by human actions and social processes. Technological hazards also fall into this category. That is because they result in human-instigated disasters. Human-made hazards are sometimes called anthropogenic hazards.<ref name="UNGA" />{{rp|18}} Examples include [[Crime|criminality]], [[Civil disorder|social unrest]], [[crowd crush]]es, [[fire]]s, [[transport accidents]], [[industrial accident]]s, power outages, [[oil spills]], [[terrorist attacks]], and [[nuclear explosion]]s/[[nuclear radiation]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Cueto |first1=Lavinia Javier |last2=Agaton |first2=Casper Boongaling |year=2021 |title=Pandemic and Typhoon: Positive Impacts of a Double Disaster on Mental Health of Female Students in the Philippines |journal=Behavioral Sciences |language=en |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=64 |doi=10.3390/bs11050064 |pmc=8147095 |pmid=33946801 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Catastrophic [[climate change]], [[nuclear war]], and [[bioterrorism]] also fall into this category.

Climate change and environmental degradation are sometimes called socio-natural hazards. These are hazards involving a combination of both natural and human factors.<ref name="UNGA" /> {{rp|18}} All disasters can be regarded as human-made, because of failure to introduce the right [[emergency management]] measures.<ref name="atrisk">Blaikie, Piers, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis & Ben Wisner. ''At Risk – Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters'', Wiltshire: Routledge, 2003, {{ISBN|0-415-25216-4}}</ref>

[[Famine]]s may be caused locally by drought, flood, fire or pestilence. In modern times there is plenty of food globally. Long-lasting local shortages are generally due to government mismanagement, violent conflict, or an economic system that does not distribute food where needed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Famine |url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/famine |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=education.nationalgeographic.org |language=en}}</ref>

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|+Disasters without links to natural hazards
|'''Disaster'''
|'''Profile'''
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|[[Bioterrorism]]||The intentional release or dissemination of biological agents as a means of coercion
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|[[Civil unrest]]||A disturbance caused by a group of people that may include [[sit-in]]s and other forms of obstructions, riots, sabotage and other forms of crime, and which is intended to be a demonstration to the public and the government, but can escalate into general chaos
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|[[Fire|Fire (urban)]]||Even with strict building fire codes, people still perish in fires
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|[[Hazardous material|Hazardous material spills]]||The escape of solids, liquids, or gases that can harm people, other living organisms, property or the environment, from their intended controlled environment such as a container.
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||[[Nuclear and radiation accidents]]||An event involving the significant release of radioactivity to the environment or a reactor core meltdown and which leads to major undesirable consequences to people, the environment, or the facility
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|[[Power failure]]||Caused by summer or winter storms, lightning or construction equipment digging in the wrong location
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