Novel methodologies for analysing critical infrastructure resilienceShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World - Proceedings of the 28th International European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018, 2018, p. 1221-1230Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In the field of Critical Infrastructures (CI), both policy and research focus has shifted from protection to resilience. The IMPROVER project has developed a CI resilience management framework (ICI-REF), applicable to all types of CI and resilience domains (technological, organisational and societal) allowing operators to understand and improve their resilience. IMPROVER has also developed methodologies to be used within the framework, accompanied with resilience indicators for operators to assess their technological and organisational resilience. The framework allows CI operators to incorporate resilience management as part of their risk management processes. The ICI-REF, the resilience analysis methodologies and indicators have been optimised, applied and demonstrated in a pilot implementation, focusing on the potable water supply in Barreiro, Portugal. Conclusions from the operators so far are that the indicators, well-defined and unambiguously described, are crucial for monitoring resilience activities, to ensure objective, consistent, repeatable and representative results from the assessed processes.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. p. 1221-1230
Keywords [en]
Potable water, Public works, Reliability, Risk management, Safety engineering, Water supply, Infrastructure resiliences, Management frameworks, Novel methodology, Organisational, Pilot implementation, Portugal, Research focus, Risk management process, Critical infrastructures
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-36682Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85058106056ISBN: 9780815386827 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-36682DiVA, id: diva2:1273588
Conference
28th International European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018, 17 June 2018 through 21 June 2018
2018-12-212018-12-212023-06-02Bibliographically approved