Complexity Paradigm and Disaster Preparedness: Focused on Flood Events in Asia

The core proposition of the complexity theory that‘the world is complex’has a similar implication to the statement that ‘disasters assume uncertainty’. Despite the great similarity of crisisonomy to the complexity paradigm, relevant discourses are not well-documented in Korea. Linking the science of complexity systems to crisisonomy is highly feasible in terms of utility and potentiality. This paper focuses on demonstrating that the frequency of floods in Asia and resultant damage (human fatalities) carry a notable attribute called complexity. The analysis findings are straightforward. The complexity paradigm is conducive to studying on disaster events and preparedness, which this paper demonstrates by illuminating the complexity paradigm manifest in the analyzed empirical case data of disasters emphasized in crisisonomy.