The Butterfly Effect on Emergency Management

Edward Lorenz’s 50-year-old-plus premise “if a single flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado” certainly sounds disaster-based. Can it be a positive, as well?

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’…