Natural Emergencies and Some Causes of Their Occurrence: a Review
 
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Vasil Levski National Military University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
 
 
Submission date: 2023-02-28
 
 
Acceptance date: 2024-03-20
 
 
Publication date: 2024-03-30
 
 
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Nikolay Todorov Dolchinkov   

n_dolchinkov@abv.bg
 
 
Trends in Ecological and Indoor Environmental Engineering, 2024;2(1):18-27
 
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In recent decades, nature has seen many anomalies with the environment, climate, and the processes taking place. This leads to a change in the temperature of the environment, the formation of meteorological processes that are not characteristic of a certain part of the planet and the triggering of emergency situations of a natural nature. The study seeks to fill the gap regarding the trends in the influence of man-made activities on the occurrence of natural disasters, their scale of distribution and consequences. The current study methodology is a combination of a literature review and bibliometric analysis to obtain the relevant impact of man-made activities to the extent of occurrence and impact of natural disasters. This report examines the main extraordinary processes that are observed around us and cause damage and departure from the normal way of life of people and the rest of the living world. It was found that many researchers indirectly confirm that anthropogenic activities can provoke negative natural events, or contribute to a significant increase in the scale of a dangerous natural phenomenon. Some of the reasons that cause them, usually independent of human activity or inaction, is also indicated. Several research works have noted that climate change over the past few decades and global warming are contributing to an increase in the frequency of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, landslides, etc. But we need to change our behaviour to minimize causing such phenomena.
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