SCIM means Simple Critical Infastructure = Maps Maps Critical Infrastructure Simple [Vinay Gupta ] [I translated it into SCIM ]. It is a framework, simple and quick to learn, allowing clarify and communicate the priorities during an emergency catastrophic.
We review each of the supplies and services that keep people alive, and then each of the elements who keep the vital systems . There are 18 items in total.
With each item, see if it is broken or threatened by the disaster and try to solve relocated to the map (concept map, not geographical) . If local crops fail we will have to bring food from outside. If you lack transportation, have to eat whatever is close. If they break the phone lines you use walkie-talkies (more local) or satellite phones (more global). (For more details, but to make a quick idea, with this you better.)
Another way to resolve what is broken or threatened is reinventing the way delivery. If broken water mains, water will be transported by truck or bicycle.
In practice, you focus on function and if you can provide this vital service in a way, find another. Like when a hospital has no electricity and you have to sterilize surgical instruments by boiling, perhaps even with a solar cooker.
That's SCIM. Maps simple. critical infrastructure, is vital. If everyone is alive at the end of the crisis, then we'll see.
In practice a situation that evolves , SCIM model can and should be used within something like the OODA loop = Observe, Orient, Decide, Act [ John Boyd ]. You look at the situation put it on the map and the map point you about what can go wrong and what alternatives are there to solve it. Decides what do you do and turned to look .
Loop OODA was initially created for air combat, but is now applied to many things.
In our case, the "enemy" is the catastrophic situation in itself. won proactively anticipating. If we know that there are reserves of water for 10 days and the crisis may last 20 days, we move quickly to multiply this term as much as we can, or saving water or look elsewhere or what can be done.
Ultimately, of course, the "enemy" is mental confusion and poor communication between those with resources to solve the problems .
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peer governance is a concept of the deepest: the "water suppliers" and "truck" join if needed "to move the water trucking."
Want to see a step by step example ?
Imagine that the volcano in Iceland, the unpronounceable name, coughing again. But now stop, and stop having aircraft in the skies above Europe, and several days later we have to get used to the idea that things are going for many months, maybe a year, we can not know how .
Consider first the six keys to survival of individuals. Ensuring that people die only of old age, and that means reducing deaths from the 6 basic causes: too cold, too hot, thirst, hunger, diseases (in skin) and injuries (you move through the skin) .
mortality excess heat or cold in the Canary Islands is zero or anecdotal. If one has no roof, the truth is that it is easy to achieve if we get to it: there are hotels, offices and sports roofs. And on the blankets and clothing. Simple solutions. What happens next ...
What about the thirst ? Let each person needs a couple of liters of water a day. It would take 4 million liters per day, or 4 cubic meters daily. That means you have to have, for example, a number of purification with fuel and chemicals. And the fuel to transport that water to the mouths of people. So roughly, if we have water fuel, and we can even calculate how much fuel. If fuel is to "drink 3 months", then the water is determined for 3 months.
is just one example, and we can add all details and variations that occur to us.
In particular, there are islands where it rains a lot, and others where it does not rain at all. There may be islands (and situations, such as damage to the only water purification of a very dry island) where you have to think about transporting water. No trucks (they are islands) but tankers.
Although, if you have to carry 2 liters per person for more than 30 days, may be more practical to transport people (from an average of 60 kg) to the islands with more water.
What about the food ? Solving the food means we need 2000 calories per person per day, every single day. According to available data, the usual diet in the Canary Islands is more than a kilo of food per person per day. Canary If there are 2 million people, we need to say 3 million kilos, which is 3 tons, which is a small cargo ship. (I watched it once, but I will be looking now at wikipedia. Let's continue.) So, a freighter of the older ones for food for a week.
diseases? The diseases are prevented and cured / softened.
prevent
is preventing water kills you diarrhea, for example. So either you chlorinated water (in insular or municipal level), or have filters (in the neighborhood or housing).
Diseases are resolved (cured or softened) with people who can heal or take care, and basic supplies such as insulin, antibiotics, analgesics, anesthesia. Imagine that one in ten people need 100 grams per week of "stuff." That gives an average of 10 grams per week per person, and as we are 2 million would be needed to reach 20 million ounces, 20 000 kilos to 20 tonnes a week. Shall we say a small plane daily or weekly flight?
Finally, the " wounds." That includes two very different categories. On the one hand, things like shaving cuts and fractures of the skull by a motorcycle accident, which are treated as diseases. Furthermore, domestic violence and violence in the tail of the meal, which also needs the functions normally carried out police and army.
In a severe disaster, this second category _previene in part if there is water, food and healthcare for all.
With that we have seen the "causes of death for people. Remains to be seen what causes failure of the "vital systems." What can make water utilities, food, health and security can not fulfill their minimal role to keep everyone alive?
are things like communications, the transport ... All these issues relate not to the survival of people, directly, but the survival of organizations that keep us alive .
But still, for the purpose of survival of people, the question is how many communications, and how transport are needed to operate the drinking water and all the other basic things?
The answer, I think, is that not much . Some time ago I read that you import (transport ) to the Canaries about 7 tons of stuff per person per year. Only a portion would be essential in a crisis. The "price" of transport could multiply, and could come into our ports only a fraction of what comes now, and yet we would not grand pianos, but why would not run out of insulin .
do you?
That can be a matter of differential prioritization like that occurs in extreme ways in those countries where some have lot and others have almost nothing. "I prefer my grand piano that your insulin, so you screw up."
For example, you might stop coming because the accumulation of insulin in other countries, whether the disaster is global or, as we are concerned, the European level. Ie in the case (hypothetical for the moment) that no insulin, but does not reach us.
That brings us to an important aspect of how to handle disaster situations. In a situation like that described, in which a crisis suddenly installed within a company previously rich (in global terms we are), the question is whether there will be a "Orderly exit from crisis" (which all have the basics, but few want to continue and continue with the upper hand) or a "messy exit" (which probably everyone loses).
afraid I almost think they might prefer the clutter. But what sometimes happens in other countries, and has happened in other historical moments, right?
Let
civilized even in disasters. Or, rather, more so in the disaster!
By the way, the poverty catastrophe is already slowly but surely. Tried the SCIM in Haiti and in many other places? Grab a spreadsheet and start ...
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