Humans as a Critical Infrastructure: Public-Private Partnerships Essential to Resiliency and Response

Barnes, Joshua; Newbold, Kenneth F.

doi:10.1109/iwcip.2005.13

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“…While the focus has been primarily on traditional infrastructure systems such as water, energy, and public health, the crucial importance of the people who operate those systems has also been acknowledged (see e.g. Anand, ; Barnes and Newbold, ). McFarlane and Rutherford (: 363), for example, refer to the ‘inherently political nature of networked urban infrastructure’ to describe the complexities in the web of people employing the same arrangement of systems.…”

Section: Urban Ecology Of War and Critical Urban Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah

Zeitoun

Elaydi

Dross

et al. 2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article assesses the impact of armed conflict on the drinking water service of Basrah from 1978 to 2013 through an 'urban warfare ecology' lens in order to draw out the implications for relief programming and relevance to urban studies. It interprets an extensive range of unpublished literature through a frame that incorporates the accumulation of direct and indirect impacts upon the hardware, consumables and people upon which urban services rely. The analysis attributes a step-wise decline in service quality to the lack of water treatment chemicals, lack of spare parts, and, primarily, an extended 'brain-drain' of qualified water service staff. The service is found to have been vulnerable to dependence upon foreign parts and people, 'vicious cycles' of impact, and the politics of aid and of reconstruction. It follows that practitioners and donors eschew ideas of relief-rehabilitation-development (RRD) for an appreciation of the needs particular to complex urban warfare biospheres, where armed conflict and sanctions permeate all aspects of service provision through altered biological and social processes. The urban warfare ecology lens is found to be a useful complement to 'infrastructural warfare' research, suggesting the study of protracted armed conflict upon all aspects of urban life be both deepened technically and broadened to other cases.

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Section: Urban Ecology Of War and Critical Urban Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah

Zeitoun

Elaydi

Dross

et al. 2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Another method of resiliency development at both strategic and operational level is through the implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). PPPs 'serve as the medium through which that infrastructure functions and protects itself' (Barnes & Newbold, 2005; p. 1). Protecting and ensuring the resilience of critical infrastructure became a shared responsibility among government and the private sector (PCCIP, 1997).…”

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Resilience of Critical Infrastructures: Benefits and Challenges from Emerging Practices and Programmes at Local Level

Trucco

Petrenj

2017

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security

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Since the beginning of 2010 there has been a boom of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) with a goal of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience (CIP-R) and Emergency Management (EM) in North America and partly in Europe and Australia as well. Currently having PPPs as one of the main ways to cope with CI interdependencies through engaging all stakeholders in order to build 'full-spectrum' resilience, it is important to look up to the best practices. Previous research has set the theoretical base of PPPs and claimed their high potential for enhancing CIP-R that is vastly unexploited due to challenges in their establishment and management. It is now necessary to move forward to studying partnerships' practical side -common issues they face, ways to overcome them and concrete benefits they are able to bring. Through studying seven cases, this work compares different PPP approaches and their contribution to CIP-R. The study demonstrates how challenges are faced and solved in an innovative way and how the benefits are reached. It also shows approaches and joint activities that support information sharing and trust building as the main ingredients that hold partners together and enable progress in other aspects, from which both public and private parties may benefit. Starting from the findings and a subsequent analysis within and between the seven cases, the study proposes a framework for the development of regional CIP-R. programmes in the context of a PPP.

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“…This implies that citizens are the basic units who are in large extent capable of helping not only themselves, but also others. Therefore, the individuals and the communities with their capacities, means, resources, knowledge, and relationships should be perceived as an essential and independent part of the critical infrastructure of emergency management systems [6]. The citizens are first on the scene and respond to and rescue individuals.…”

Section: Citizens' Behaviour During Emergency Situationsmentioning

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The role of citizens in emergency management systems in the Czech Republic

Řeháček¹,

Dlabka²,

Baudišová³

et al. 2015

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Safety is one of the major priorities in European society. In order to ensure a better quality of life and to remain proactive even during emergencies, effective risk management is needed. Current trends clearly indicate a shift from a passive role of citizens as recipients of help to empowerment and effective self-protection. This paper aims to provide insights into the present state of citizen engagement in the risk management systems within the field of civil protection in the Czech Republic. An analysis of citizens' roles has been conducted and the deficiencies of the current system are discussed along with the identification of possibilities for improvement. Results indicate that the citizen's role within the Czech Republic emergency management system is rather ambiguous. On a theoretical level, stated in the strategy policy guidelines, citizens are perceived as an integral part of the system and, as such, should be empowered to self-protection. But practical implementation leads us to the conclusion that citizens are rather subjects of rescue, passive recipients of help from the side of trained professionals and the major focus is still concentrated on the public authority bodies rather than on citizens. This ambiguous state is particularly visible within the risk communication efforts and the future implications should be discussed further.

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Humans as a Critical Infrastructure: Public-Private Partnerships Essential to Resiliency and Response

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah

Urban Warfare Ecology: A Study of Water Supply in Basrah

Resilience of Critical Infrastructures: Benefits and Challenges from Emerging Practices and Programmes at Local Level

The role of citizens in emergency management systems in the Czech Republic

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