The Butterfly Effect on Emergency Management

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Edward Lorenz’s more than 50-year-old premise, which starts out that “if a single flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado” certainly sounds like it has a direct impact on disasters, but it was designed as a metaphor for chaos theory. There’s even a paper published on the Butterfly Effect of the Butterfly Effect itself. I’m going to make the point that Emergency Management can help…