New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk

Gheorghe, Adrian V.; Georgescu, Alexandru; Bucovețchi, Ölga; Lazăr, Marilena; Scarlat, Cezar

doi:10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2

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“…Hawchar et al [62] have defined a GIS -based framework to rank risk that could occur in CIs vulnerable to a specific climate threat. In 2018, Gheorghe et al [63] presented a new perspective arguing that the existence of critical space infrastructures implies the emergence of a new category of disasters related to disruption risks. Serre and Heinzlef [64] classified some methods to assess resilience levels to floods taking into account CIs networks.…”

Section: Cluster#1 "Risk Assessment" (39 Documents)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Infrastructures Overview: Past, Present and Future

2022

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Industrialized societies depend on the proper functioning of a whole range of technological infrastructures, such as electricity, road and railway networks and telecommunications which, due to their importance, are generically referred to as critical infrastructures (CIs). Technical failures, natural disasters and malicious events, if not terrorist, could have devastating effects on these infrastructures. The events of the last few years have accelerated efforts to identify and designate CIs at national and European levels and have reinforced concerns about increasing their protection in sensitive sectors for the safety of the individual and the community. The aim of this research is to provide the basic elements to understand the issue along with the reasons for its importance both at national, European and international level. In particular, after analyzing the origin of the problem, a systematic literature review is carried out to study the current research around future perspectives relating to the management of Cis, with particular focus on three research questions: RQ1 “What types of risk assessment methods are used to manage CIs?”, RQ2 “What are the environmental risk mitigation strategies for CIs?” and RQ3 “What is the role of the human factor in the prevention of risks for CIs?”. The results aim to be guidelines for decision makers and researchers interested in this topic.

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Section: Cluster#1 "Risk Assessment" (39 Documents)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Infrastructures Overview: Past, Present and Future

2022

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“…Research has regularly emphasised a need for appropriate governance that accounts for the complexity of critical infrastructure and its impact on societal systems [16,43,44]. Likewise, Coaffee and Clarke [45] requested 'new modes of equitable governance across multiple systems, networks and scales'.…”

Section: Governance and The Policy Processmentioning

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Towards a Holistic Perspective on Future Transportation Systems: A Swedish Case and a Conceptual Framework

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2022

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Critical infrastructure systems—such as transportation—are the backbone of society. Infrastructure development can thus be acknowledged as a common societal concern in the field of governance, and its recognition as a policy problem is crucial to proper decision making. This study aims to build an in-depth understanding of the multi-level system concerned with transportation and applies a soft systems methodology to structure the investigation. The system analysis and conceptual modelling rests on publicly available documents and policies, group meetings and a workshop with stakeholders from the local, regional and national levels. The paper provides a thorough analysis of the Swedish transportation system through public policy and the perceptions of municipal officials. In addition, it proposes a novel conceptual framework of the transportation system, including a detailed discussion of stakeholders, activities and perspectives. Although transportation is vital for many stakeholders, improving only transport infrastructure does not guarantee regional growth. Therefore, the proposed framework constitutes a novel basis for constructive dialogue among concerned parties regarding improvements to transportation. Thereby, the paper provides an understanding of a society’s transportation system that can be used to inform agenda setting for critical infrastructure governance. Further discussion in the scientific community and with officials entrusted with public administration could further validate and deepen the proposed understanding of the perspectives and constraints in the examined context and beyond.

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“…Finally, Gheorghe et al ( 2018 ) deal with the resilience of particular ICT systems which are subject and object of crisis and emergency situation management: Critical Space Infrastructure (CSI), like satellites orbiting the Earth, may compromise, with their failures, the capacity of competent actors to manage the crisis. As regards the space governance, the authors argue that space actors must agree on key resilience measures, implement them and enforce them unilaterally on third parties, such as corporations or other states, despite the lack of jurisdiction due to the international character of the space environment.…”

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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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New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Critical Infrastructures Overview: Past, Present and Future

Critical Infrastructures Overview: Past, Present and Future

Towards a Holistic Perspective on Future Transportation Systems: A Swedish Case and a Conceptual Framework

Reviewing qualitative research approaches in the context of critical infrastructure resilience

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