TY - CHAP
T1 - Redesigning resilient infrastructure research
AU - Seager, Thomas
AU - Clark, Susan Spierre
AU - Eisenberg, Daniel A.
AU - Thomas, John E.
AU - Hinrichs, Margaret M.
AU - Kofron, Ryan
AU - Jensen, Camilla Nørgaard
AU - McBurnett, Lauren R.
AU - Snell, Marcus
AU - Alderson, David L.
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The authors acknowledge the guidance provided in extended conversations with Drs. Stephen Flynn of Northeastern University, David Woods of The Ohio State University, and Igor Linkov of the US Army Engineer and Development Center. Also, Dr. David Alexander of University College London provided feedback and encouragement in the development of Fig. 3.2. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation awards 1,441,352 and 1,360,509, the Department of Defense (DOD) Grant 11967796-ONR-Navy Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence (NEPTUNE), and the DOD Defense Threat Reduction Agency award HDTRA1–11-16-BRCWMD-PerE). The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Federal Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge the guidance provided in extended conversations with Drs. Stephen Flynn of Northeastern University, David Woods of The Ohio State University, and Igor Linkov of the US Army Engineer and Development Center. Also, Dr. David Alexander of University College London provided feedback and encouragement in the development of Fig. 3.2. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation awards 1,441,352 and 1,360,509, the Department of Defense (DOD) Grant11967796-ONR-Navy Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence (NEPTUNE), and the DOD Defense Threat Reduction Agency award HDTRA1–11-16-BRCWMD-PerE). The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Federal Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Despite federal policy directives to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure systems to extreme weather and other adverse events, several knowledge and governance barriers currently frustrate progress towards policy goals, namely: (1) a lack of awareness of what constitutes resilience in diverse infrastructure applications, (2) a lack of judgement about how to create resilience, (3) a lack of incentives that motivate resilience creation, and (4) obstacles that prevent action or reform, even where incentives exist, within existing governance systems. In this chapter, we describe each of these barriers in greater detail and provide a catalog of theories for overcoming them. Regarding awareness, we contrast four different characterizations of resilience as rebound, robustness, graceful extensibility, and sustained adaptability. We apply Integral Theory to demonstrate the necessity of integrating multiple investigative perspectives. Further, we illustrate the importance of recognizing resilience as a set of processes, in addition to resources and outcomes, and the difficulty of measuring quality and quality of resilience actions. Regarding judgement, we position infrastructure as the principal mechanism by which human rights are realized as human capabilities, and propose applying theories of human development such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to identify the most critical infrastructure in terms of the services they provide to end users. Regarding a lack of incentives, we examine the modes and tools of financial analysis by which investments in resilience infrastructure may be prioritized and find two failings: the difficulty of estimating the monetary value of optionality, and the problem of exponential discounting of future cash flows. Regarding obstacles to action, we describe a hierarchy of adaptive actions applicable to physical infrastructure and the essential dimensions of organizational maturity that determine how these adaptive actions might be initiated. Additionally, we discuss the difficulty of education and training for resilient infrastructure systems and propose simulation gaming as an integrative research and education approach for capturing lessons learned from historical catastrophes, play-testing scenarios, sharing knowledge, and training a workforce prepared for the challenges of the post-industrial infrastructure age. Finally, we suggest establishing a National Network for Resilient Infrastructure Simulation to coordinate research and practice focused on interactive case studies in resilient infrastructure systems.
AB - Despite federal policy directives to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure systems to extreme weather and other adverse events, several knowledge and governance barriers currently frustrate progress towards policy goals, namely: (1) a lack of awareness of what constitutes resilience in diverse infrastructure applications, (2) a lack of judgement about how to create resilience, (3) a lack of incentives that motivate resilience creation, and (4) obstacles that prevent action or reform, even where incentives exist, within existing governance systems. In this chapter, we describe each of these barriers in greater detail and provide a catalog of theories for overcoming them. Regarding awareness, we contrast four different characterizations of resilience as rebound, robustness, graceful extensibility, and sustained adaptability. We apply Integral Theory to demonstrate the necessity of integrating multiple investigative perspectives. Further, we illustrate the importance of recognizing resilience as a set of processes, in addition to resources and outcomes, and the difficulty of measuring quality and quality of resilience actions. Regarding judgement, we position infrastructure as the principal mechanism by which human rights are realized as human capabilities, and propose applying theories of human development such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to identify the most critical infrastructure in terms of the services they provide to end users. Regarding a lack of incentives, we examine the modes and tools of financial analysis by which investments in resilience infrastructure may be prioritized and find two failings: the difficulty of estimating the monetary value of optionality, and the problem of exponential discounting of future cash flows. Regarding obstacles to action, we describe a hierarchy of adaptive actions applicable to physical infrastructure and the essential dimensions of organizational maturity that determine how these adaptive actions might be initiated. Additionally, we discuss the difficulty of education and training for resilient infrastructure systems and propose simulation gaming as an integrative research and education approach for capturing lessons learned from historical catastrophes, play-testing scenarios, sharing knowledge, and training a workforce prepared for the challenges of the post-industrial infrastructure age. Finally, we suggest establishing a National Network for Resilient Infrastructure Simulation to coordinate research and practice focused on interactive case studies in resilient infrastructure systems.
KW - Adaptive governance
KW - Critical infrastructure
KW - Human resilience development
KW - Integral theory
KW - Organizational resilience
KW - Resilience economics
KW - Resilience engineering
KW - Resilience processes
KW - Resilient infrastructure education
KW - Socio-technical systems integration
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U2 - 10.1007/978-94-024-1123-2_3
DO - 10.1007/978-94-024-1123-2_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85028336648
T3 - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
SP - 81
EP - 119
BT - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -