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Natural disasters > Conflagrations

Preferred term

1833Conflagrations  

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Fires

Scope note

  • Large-scale uncontrolled fires in a built area or in the countryside with disastrous consequences for the natural and/or the human-made environment. Although conflagrations are sometimes due to intentional action (arson), they mostly are provoked either by natural phenomena (e.g. drought, flashes of lightning) or by a combination of natural phenomena and human activity (e.g. ways of construction and of resource exploitation, management of combustible materials).

Source

  • Schenk 2017

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Tzedopoulos Giorgos (AA)

Notation

  • 1833

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1833

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