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The aim of the study is to analyze the natural and anthropogenic factors and long-term processes that explained the intensity and scale of the flood disaster that occurred on 19.06.2014 in Varna. For this purpose two related models of disaster – ‘Pressure and Release model’ (PAR model) and ‘Access model’ are applied. The PAR model shows how the causes of vulnerability can be traced back from unsafe conditions, through economic and social (dynamic) pressures, to underlying root causes. The idea is that a disaster i...