Chaos Theory and Emergent Behavior in the West Virginia Water Crisis

Chaos theory holds that systems act in unpredictable, nonlinear ways and that their behavior can only be observed, never predicted. This is an informative model for an organization in crisis. The West Virginia water contamination crisis, which began on January 9, 2014, fits the criteria of a system...

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Main Author: Morgan Getchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nicholson School of Communciation and Media 2018-11-01
Series:Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research
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Online Access:https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol1/iss2/1