Progress toward Resilient Infrastructures: Are we falling behind the pace of events and changing threats?

Woods, David; Alderson, David

doi:10.18278/jcip.2.2.2

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“…Under extreme weather conditions, resilient energy infrastructures become a matter of life and death, particularly for those living in vulnerable zones or countries in the Global South [5]. Yet, progress is falling behind as critical infrastructure energy systems, mainly in the Global South, are not evolving as they should be [6]. Indirectly, SDG 7 demands that countries strengthen their national innovation capacity because innovation drives developments in new climate-resilient infrastructure [7].…”

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The 2013 Mexican Energy Reform in the Context of Sustainable Development Goal 7

Garcia-Garza,

Ortiz-Rodriguez,

Picazzo-Palencia

et al. 2023

Energies

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In 2013, the Mexican Constitution was amended to allow private firms to participate in the energy sector market. Consequently, the energy reform opened the energy market to private investors, ending the state monopoly of PEMEX and CFE. This article aims to assess the impact of the 2013 Mexican Energy Reform on energy household consumption and, if proven effective, explore its potential to help achieve SDG 7. This longitudinal study gathered data before and after the energy bill reform, from 2012 to 2018, with a non-experimental design. Data analysis to determine the effect of the price variance was estimated through price elasticities of demand, and a logarithmic model was used to determine the relationship between the price and cost of electricity, gas, and fuel. Findings suggest that the 2013 Mexican Energy Reform led to an increase in energy prices that, on the one hand, reduced the consumption of energy generated using fossil hydrocarbons but, on the other hand, affected the portion of the population with less income. Consequently, it is possible to conclude that the 2013 Mexican Energy Reform is irreconcilable with SDG 7 unless substantial additional efforts are made to leave no one behind.

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The 2013 Mexican Energy Reform in the Context of Sustainable Development Goal 7

Garcia-Garza,

Ortiz-Rodriguez,

Picazzo-Palencia

et al. 2023

Energies

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“…Public‐sector and academic research studies identify natural and manmade threats to selected critical infrastructure systems in the United States and other countries. Multiple researchers describe the cascading effects of disturbances on interdependent, critical infrastructure systems—focusing on the impacts to national energy systems 20–24 . Setola, et al.…”

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A resilience systemic model for assessing critical supply chain disruptions

Oliver

Mazzuchi

Sarkani

2022

Systems Engineering

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Assessing the impact of natural disasters and manmade incidents against critical infrastructure systems is important and challenging. As critical infrastructure sectors become more interdependent, a method is needed to assess how disruptions to one sector affect other sectors. This need is particularly significant in the case of critical national supply chains which have not received the same attention as other critical infrastructure systems. This research develops a methodology for performing supply chain impact assessments by integrating model‐based systems engineering (MBSE) with discrete event simulation (DES). SysML models capture the supply chain structure and critical infrastructure interdependencies. Simulation of the supply chain model subjected to external constraints identifies the impacts from critical infrastructure disruptions. This approach enables researchers and public policy planners to assess critical supply chain risks associated with current infrastructure implementations, and to conduct what‐if analyses on alternative solutions. Application of this methodology to assess the natural disaster impacts on an urban food supply system demonstrates the effectiveness of modeling and simulation for evaluating the impacts of critical infrastructure disruptions on a wide range of critical supply chains. Future research should apply this methodology to different national supply chains and investigate additional critical infrastructure interdependency linkage mechanisms.

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Canaries in coal mines and normal accidents: The CrowdStrike outage and its lessons for critical infrastructure

Morris,

Mayer

2024

Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy

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The service outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software update in July 2024 triggered a widespread disruption in services and activities worldwide, ranging from airline operations, to credit card transaction processing, emergency and cellular telephone operations, and technical issues for more than 8 million Microsoft Windows users. The outage was not the result of a deliberate attempt to disrupt systems, but rather of what Charles Perrow has termed a “normal accident.” This article explores the implications of technological complexity for critical infrastructure and offers ideas for a research agenda to better understand resilience in tightly coupled, critical infrastructure systems.

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Progress toward Resilient Infrastructures: Are we falling behind the pace of events and changing threats?

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

The 2013 Mexican Energy Reform in the Context of Sustainable Development Goal 7

The 2013 Mexican Energy Reform in the Context of Sustainable Development Goal 7

A resilience systemic model for assessing critical supply chain disruptions

Canaries in coal mines and normal accidents: The CrowdStrike outage and its lessons for critical infrastructure

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