Perrow observed that, as technological systems become ever more complex, disasters that appear to result from a confluence of bad coincidences become, in fact, unavoidable, as a failure in one part causes a failure in another and another in ways that no designer could predict.
Now that natural disasters have-been outdone, by more complex and deadly disasters, we would like them to retire gracefully into obsolescence.
Solving these and more complex problems before a disaster occurs will not come from doing senior-level "table-top" exercises but from hands-on training at the regional and local level.
"We hope that this report acts as a warning that cutting staff at a time when the country's health care needs are becoming more complex is a recipe for disaster".
A series of more complex and destructive crises, natural disasters and emergencies such as the Ebola epidemic, are putting some 60 million children in extraordinary danger of violence, hunger, disease and abuse, UNICEF said.
Our results also show that the nature and extent of the relationships between resilient well-being and disaster readiness are more complex and heterogeneous than previously acknowledged.
The UK's experience of extensive floods in the summer of 2007 illustrated this more complex picture of risk and vulnerability within disaster-affected communities and the significance of fear as a risk factor.
The portions addressing natural disasters focus on storms, not the more complex and slow-onset effects of climate change.
If, on the other hand, the public is basically right about heightened disaster risks, the policy issues become much more complex.
"Politically, the situation is becoming more complex on the ground, which may prolong or even increase the humanitarian disaster".
