Rethinking disaster vulnerabilities

Accurately predicting disasters has been an elusive and complex task for many decades, but anticipating the aftermath of an event can be based on historic precedence and forward thinking [1]. The response challenges, mechanisms of injury and complexities of a specific event type are well documented and can be anticipated based on previous lessons learned [2]. The consequences of a compound disaster, where one event precipitates another, are much harder to anticipate: a terrorism induced derailing of a train carrying volatile chemicals becomes a herculean disaster response.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research