Analysis and Assessment of theGrowing Tendencies of Natural Disasters and Events in Hungary from thePerspective of Disaster Management

Abstract

Several works regarding safety influencing factors emphasise thegrowth of natural and civilisational disasters and events in the21st century. Theauthor analyses thetrend of change in natural disasters with statistical methods, as well as reviews Hungarian and international literature with archive research methods with thehelp of indexing databases. Based on akeyword search, theauthor evaluates thequantitative and qualitative data of thepublications from ascientific metrics point of view, with which he also studies thetopicality of theresearch topic and thediscourse between thescientific and academic community.The publication features therecorded events in Hungary divided by type, based on EM-DAT data, during theperiod between 1900 and 2021 – with special regard to showing emergency situations, their causes and theyear of occurrence since 1989 (when theterm itself was formed). Theauthor also analyses certain meteorological anomalies occurring in Hungary, based on thestatistics of firefighting interventions.