Introduction
Cascade disaster is a concurrent sequence that occurs and initiates the occurrence of another event. Any natural disaster causes detrimental effects to the environment particularly the infrastructure, thereby establishing the need to study the occurrence of cascade to provide preventive measures because climatic changes lead to natural disasters. Therefore, the best approach will be to understand Causal-Loop-Diagrams (CLDs) to examine the magnitude of cascade effect on human health, electricity, infrastructure as well as natural disaster. The researchers have tried to apply the CLD to disastrous events and management, so as to improve the lives of people by providing the best and safest environment for them (Berariu et al., 2015).
Incorporating cascade model
The model of cascade can be applied using thinking system method by incorporating CLD and system Dynasty (SD) so as to examine the cause and effects of the system. By doing this, it becomes easy to realize the effects and possible cause, thereby becoming easy to control by understanding the language of interrelationship that causes the behavior of the system. System thinking gives an understanding and improvement of the system behavior so as to point out where exactly to control. The principle reason behind CLD was to realize how cascade effect influences the relief as well as examining the behavior of the system. CLD helps in examining the behavior so as to predict the consequence of the system, and again, more variables can be added to make it easy to visualize interconnections. Infrastructure is very important to every person, as it aid movement from one point to another. When affected by natural disaster, it makes it difficult to respond to emergency, as well as making it hard for goods to be transported from one place to the affected areas. Generally, infrastructure especially roads affect the evacuation processes and they are affected by inundations. Floods for instance affect road networks making it hard for people to respond accordingly, and this also affect healthcare system because physicians cannot move from one place to another to treat the patients, and the case is still the same in case of heat waves. However, when disaster management measures are undertaken, it becomes easier and possible to manage and control such negative impacts by acting more units of relief and to increase the amount of conducted measures. Besides the transport, floods interfere with electricity thereby affecting communication between parties, and the only way these kinds of cascades and their interdependencies, CLD is utilized. From the discussion of cascade effects, I am for the implementation of CLD. The best thing to do when such disastrous things happen is not to control them, wait for them to happen again so as to control them, but to know the science behind their occurrence and their interdependencies so as to easily manage it. When CLD is utilized, it becomes easy to manage such catastrophes, and the lives of people are enhanced because people are assured of good health, better communication, and improved infrastructure (Berariu et al., 2015).
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is not obvious to control disastrous events, but CLD gives an opportunity to the decision makers to incorporate cascade effects and to realize the complication any disaster event. It is therefore important to establish a non-linear realization of dynamic to managing disaster as well as feedback processes through the collected information on the impacts in the CLD. Regardless the fact that water waves and floods are different, their effects is almost similar and affect people in one way or the other, and thus there is a need to manage them. The affected infrastructure needs cascade effects for disaster management, so as to ensure that the victims have the best conditions (Berariu et al., 2015).
References
Berariu, R., Fikar, C., Gronalt, M., & Hirsch, P. (2015). Understanding the impact of cascade effects of natural disasters on disaster relief operations.International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 12, 350-356.
