A Review of Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Simulation and Modelling for the Caribbean.

Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are particularly

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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prone and, as such, Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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Effect of uncertainty on objectives.

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reduction and effective

Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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management are crucial to sustainable development. Studying critical infrastructure interdependencies (CII) is a relatively new facet of

Disaster risk reduction is the policy objective aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contributes to strengthening resilience.

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. Computer simulation software is the most effective and economical method of studying these relationships. This paper contextualises the role of CII simulation as part of a complete disaster and Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action. Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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management programme, and reviews the state-of-the-art as pertains to utilisation of such tools among Caribbean

The organization and management of resources and responsibilities for addressing all aspects of emergencies and effectively respond to a hazardous event or a disaster.

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agencies (EMAs). It finds that Caribbean EMAs do not currently utilise CII tools. The paper then reviews some of the most popular simulation tools under development such as CIPDSS, HAZUS, I2Sim/DR-NEP and ESRI Sim Disaster. Their applicability and ease of adoption to the Caribbean context is considered. I2Sim was viewed as being the best suited for Caribbean EMAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]/nCopyright of West Indian Journal of Engineering is the property of University of the West Indies, Faculty of Engineering and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)