A value-based approach to infrastructure resilience

Field, Caroline; Look, R.

doi:10.1007/s10669-018-9701-x

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“…Finally, a debriefing was conducted to assess the performance of the system, indicating possible bottlenecks and identifying brittleness. Field and Look (2018) aim at assessing organisations resilience performance, providing a framework based on a value model, against which each type of CI was comparatively assessed. A set of interviews was conducted to 50 industry experts from a variety of CIs' sectors with direct responsibility for the assess risk and resilience.…”

Section: Organisational Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Reviewing qualitative research approaches in the context of critical infrastructure resilience

2021

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Modern societies are increasingly dependent on the proper functioning of critical infrastructures (CIs). CIs produce and distribute essential goods or services, as for power transmission systems, water treatment and distribution infrastructures, transportation systems, communication networks, nuclear power plants, and information technologies. Being resilient becomes a key property for CIs, which are constantly exposed to threats that can undermine safety, security, and business continuity. Nowadays, a variety of approaches exist in the context of CIs’ resilience research. This paper provides a state-of-the-art review on the approaches that have a complete qualitative dimension, or that can be used as entry points for semi-quantitative analyses. The study aims to uncover the usage of qualitative research methods through a systematic review based on PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). The paper identifies four principal dimensions of resilience referred to CIs (i.e., techno-centric, organisational, community, and urban) and discusses the related qualitative methods. Besides many studies being focused on energy and transportation systems, the literature review allows to observe that interviews and questionnaires are most frequently used to gather qualitative data, besides a high percentage of mixed-method research. The article aims to provide a synthesis of literature on qualitative methods used for resilience research in the domain of CIs, detailing lessons learned from such approaches to shed lights on best practices and identify possible future research directions.

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Section: Organisational Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Reviewing qualitative research approaches in the context of critical infrastructure resilience

2021

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“…Infrastructure resilience might be neglected or sacrificed among the users due to lack of having a systems view, which may highlight more immediately recognizable system properties such as sustainability or productivity (Meadows, 2008). Analysis of the infrastructures through a lens of systems thinking/approach provides a better insight towards understanding the system's complexity and interconnectivity which is required to enhance its resilience comprehensively and coherently (Field and Look, 2018). This approach can improve the infrastructure system's ability in terms of better anticipating, absorbing, responding, and recovering from changes at disruptive events.…”

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“…While knowledge sharing, risk assessment, and nature-based solutions present the commonly used approaches in recent applications, a little appears to be known about increasing resilience of VIS using other measures, such as diversification, de-centralisation, cognitive approaches, and human-centred design framework. Field and Look (2018) and Bakhshipour et al (2019) presented two of the few examples in which systems thinking, and de-centralization approaches were applied to quantify infrastructure resilience, and to optimize drainage systems performance, respectively.…”

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Towards Resilient Vital Infrastructure Systems: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Research Agenda

Mehvar

Wijnberg

Borsje

et al. 2020

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Abstract. Infrastructure systems are inextricably tied to society by providing a variety of vital services. These systems play a fundamental role in reducing the vulnerability of communities and increasing their resilience to natural and human-induced hazards. While diverse definitions of the resilience engineering concept exist for the infrastructures, analysing resilience of these systems within cross sectoral and interdisciplinary perspectives remains limited and fragmented in research and practice. This review synthesizes and complements existing knowledge in designing resilient vital infrastructures with the aim to assist researchers and policy makers by identifying: (1) key conceptual tensions and challenges that arise when designing resilient infrastructure systems; (2) engineering and non-engineering based measures to enhance resilience of the vital infrastructures, including the best recent practices available; and (3) opportunities for future research in this field. Results from a systematic literature review combined with expert interviews are integrated into a conceptual framework in which infrastructures are defined as a conglomeration of interdependent social, ecological, and technical systems. Our results indicate that conceptual and practical challenges in designing resilient infrastructures continue to exist, hence these systems are still being built without taking resilience explicitly into account. A review of available measures and recent applications shows that these measures have not been widely applied in designing different systems. To advance our understanding of the resilience engineering concept for infrastructure systems, main pressing topics to address evolve around the: (i) integration of the combined social, ecological and technical resilience of infrastructure systems, focusing on cascading effects of failures and dependencies across these complex systems; and (ii) development of new technology to identify the factors that create different recovery characteristics for these socio-ecological-technical systems.

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“…The VUCA state is defined by a combination of shocks and stressors, such as climate change, increasing occurrence and intensity of extreme events, resource scarcity, increasing wealth inequality, political conflicts, social justice, an aging population, pandemics, housing shortages, population growth, traffic congestion, poor air and water quality, the displacement of labor forces through automation, and dysfunctional political governance (Scovronick et al 2017;Wetzstein 2017;Glasser 2019). Together, this instability challenges the fixed notions of performance, operations and maintenance, and reliability that historically have defined civil engineering projects (Field and Look 2018).…”

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Incorporating Socioeconomic Metrics in Civil Engineering Projects: The Resilience Perspective

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This paper explores the role of socioeconomic metrics in the design, planning and operations of civil engineering projects within the specific context of resilience. The inclusion of resilience analysis and design is consistent with the goals of the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) and related emerging standards and duties of civil engineers. This paper focuses on the practices in design, planning, construction, and operation of civil engineering projects that can deliver social value to communities and offers a set of socioeconomic metrics for consistently measuring these benefits. Socioeconomic metrics benchmark benefits including safety, social equity, health and wellbeing, prosperity, cohesion and inclusivity, and mobility and accessibility during the whole life-cycle of a project. A review of metrics is presented and expanded with an emphasis on the need for contextual narrative support to their application. The aim is to establish further the use of metrics in civil engineering projects to set values at the community level and formulate them to justify and rationalize resilience interventions and strategies. The reviewed concepts and categorized project metrics can be used by a range of actors in addition to civil engineers, such as urban planners, policy makers, or regional developers, preferably in a collaborative manner across these groups, particularly to help prioritize the investment of resources and funds to achieve resilience. Three project examples at differing levels of complexity are presented to conceptually illustrate the approaches outlined herein.

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A value-based approach to infrastructure resilience

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

Reviewing qualitative research approaches in the context of critical infrastructure resilience

Reviewing qualitative research approaches in the context of critical infrastructure resilience

Towards Resilient Vital Infrastructure Systems: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Research Agenda

Incorporating Socioeconomic Metrics in Civil Engineering Projects: The Resilience Perspective

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