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# Climate & Environmental Crisis Taxonomy

> Complete event type and subtype reference for Climate & Environmental Crisis

# Climate & Environmental Crisis

**Category ID**: `climate`
**Icon**: cloud-rain
**Color**: #059669

This category contains **7 event types** and **37 subtypes** for tracking climate & environmental crisis events.

## Special Fields

This category includes the following specialized metadata fields:

| Field                  | Type    | Required | Options              |
| ---------------------- | ------- | -------- | -------------------- |
| `hazard_type`          | string  | Yes      | 6 values (see below) |
| `severity`             | string  | Yes      | 5 values (see below) |
| `fatalities`           | integer | No       |                      |
| `displaced_persons`    | integer | No       |                      |
| `estimated_damage_usd` | float   | No       |                      |
| `affected_area_km2`    | float   | No       |                      |

### Hazard Type

**Field ID**: `hazard_type`\
**Type**: string\
**Required**: Yes

**Allowed values**:

* `Meteorological`
* `Geophysical`
* `Hydrological`
* `Climatological`
* `Biological`
* `Industrial/Technological`

### Severity

**Field ID**: `severity`\
**Type**: string\
**Required**: Yes

**Allowed values**:

* `Advisory`
* `Watch`
* `Warning`
* `Emergency`
* `Catastrophic`

### Fatalities

**Field ID**: `fatalities`\
**Type**: integer\
**Required**: No

### Displaced Persons

**Field ID**: `displaced_persons`\
**Type**: integer\
**Required**: No

### Estimated Damage Usd

**Field ID**: `estimated_damage_usd`\
**Type**: float\
**Required**: No

### Affected Area Km2

**Field ID**: `affected_area_km2`\
**Type**: float\
**Required**: No

## Event Type Hierarchy

The Climate & Environmental Crisis category includes the following complete hierarchy:

### Natural Disaster

**Type ID**: `natural_disaster`\
**Subtypes**: 7

* **Earthquake** (`earthquake`)
* **Volcanic Eruption** (`volcanic_eruption`)
* **Tsunami** (`tsunami`)
* **Hurricane Typhoon Cyclone** (`hurricane_typhoon_cyclone`)
* **Tornado** (`tornado`)
* **Flood** (`flood`)
* **Landslide** (`landslide`)

### Climate Driven Crisis

**Type ID**: `climate_driven_crisis`\
**Subtypes**: 5

* **Drought** (`drought`)
* **Wildfire** (`wildfire`)
* **Extreme Heat Event** (`extreme_heat_event`)
* **Glacial Lake Outburst** (`glacial_lake_outburst`)
* **Sea Level Inundation** (`sea_level_inundation`)

### Environmental Degradation

**Type ID**: `environmental_degradation`\
**Subtypes**: 7

* **Deforestation** (`deforestation`)
* **Desertification** (`desertification`)
* **Coral Reef Collapse** (`coral_reef_collapse`)
* **Biodiversity Loss Event** (`biodiversity_loss_event`)
* **Soil Contamination** (`soil_contamination`)
* **Air Pollution Event** (`air_pollution_event`)
* **Water Pollution Event** (`water_pollution_event`)

### Industrial Environmental Disaster

**Type ID**: `industrial_environmental_disaster`\
**Subtypes**: 5

* **Oil Spill** (`oil_spill`)
* **Chemical Release** (`chemical_release`)
* **Nuclear Incident** (`nuclear_incident`)
* **Mining Disaster** (`mining_disaster`)
* **Dam Failure** (`dam_failure`)

### Resource Conflict

**Type ID**: `resource_conflict`\
**Subtypes**: 4

* **Water Scarcity Dispute** (`water_scarcity_dispute`)
* **Land Use Conflict** (`land_use_conflict`)
* **Fishing Rights Dispute** (`fishing_rights_dispute`)
* **Mining Rights Conflict** (`mining_rights_conflict`)

### Climate Policy And Response

**Type ID**: `climate_policy_and_response`\
**Subtypes**: 4

* **Climate Agreement** (`climate_agreement`)
* **Emissions Regulation** (`emissions_regulation`)
* **Disaster Relief Deployment** (`disaster_relief_deployment`)
* **Environmental Protest** (`environmental_protest`)

### Biological Hazard

**Type ID**: `biological_hazard`\
**Subtypes**: 5

* **Pandemic** (`pandemic`)
* **Disease Outbreak** (`disease_outbreak`)
* **Epidemic** (`epidemic`)
* **Vector Borne Disease Spread** (`vector_borne_disease_spread`)
* **Zoonotic Spillover** (`zoonotic_spillover`)

## Example API Queries

### Get all Climate & Environmental Crisis events

```python theme={null}
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.corpus.intrace.ai/v1/events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "your-api-key"},
    params={"event_category": "climate"}
)
events = response.json()
```

### Get Natural Disaster events

```python theme={null}
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.corpus.intrace.ai/v1/events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "your-api-key"},
    params={
        "event_category": "climate",
        "event_type": "natural_disaster"
    }
)
```

## Conceptual Guidance

Climate events use scientific hazard classification:

* **hazard\_type** follows international standards (Meteorological, Geophysical, etc.)
* **severity** indicates immediate danger level
* Impact metrics: **fatalities**, **displaced\_persons**, **estimated\_damage\_usd**

**Natural Disaster** vs **Climate Driven Crisis**: Acute events vs slow-onset phenomena.

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