Check out this video with highlights from the DRS-7 Critical Infrastructure Resilience event, where IMPROVER, together with the four projects DARWIN, SMR, RESILENS and RESOLUTE, presented recommendations on how to align European Resilience Management Guidelines.
]]>The questionnaire results show that the willingness to tolerate a disruption appears to be linked to the amount of inconvenience a given disruption would impart on the respondent.
]]>In the present report, the indicator framework from D4.3 has been developed further in order to become more accessible and usable for its envisioned end users. This report also describes a work process which could be used to assess organisational resilience, based on framework indicators and other guiding concepts from organisational resilience research. The method includes core resilience concepts, requirements for the analyst, guidance on typical qualitative methods for inquiry and an analytical process with a workflow going from local analytical activities to a joint assessment workshop.
In addition, D4.6 includes an analysis of existing standards with some relation to organisational resilience and how those standards could be used to inform the introduction of organisational resilience analyses in the industry. These results have influenced the iterative development of the indicator framework.
It in concluded that the indicator framework should and needs to be treated as a living document. It is preferable if each organisation makes it their own and updates it regularly.
Furthermore, the pilot study in the Living Lab Barreiro, Portugal show that using a narrative and thus story-telling when having an assessment workshop on organisational resilience is preferable. This further indicates that it is the qualitative discussions and not the quantitative measurements that are most important for building resilient capabilities.
]]>This report begins by providing an overview of the key themes in the literature on traditional media, crisis communication, and disaster resilience. It considers the extent to which the connective affordances of social media sites such as Facebook can be leveraged by emergency managers in order to crowdsource crisis information; as well as the ethical challenges posed by such practices. Then, it presents key findings from the thematic analysis of 31 interviews conducted with key stakeholders (including emergency managers, representatives of critical infrastructure operators, community leaders and professional journalists) between November 2016 and January 2017. In addition, the report draws on lessons learnt from two recent incidents in which traditional media and social media were said to have contributed to disaster resilience within countries represented in the project consortium.
]]>Chapter 4 of the report gives an overview of technological concepts which contribute to the overall resilience of critical infrastructure. The individual technological resilience concepts are grouped under the different phases of an incident occurring, namely: anticipation, absorption (and response), recovery and adaptation.
After a detailed discussion of individual resilience concepts, in Chapter 5, some engineering frameworks, centred on engineering risk assessment and the resilience triangle, are briefly presented which have promising features for practical implementation of technological resilience concepts for critical infrastructure.
Chapter 6 illustrates the application of some of the analysis methods that might be used for quantifying certain aspects of resilience. The first example presents a detailed damage assessment of a highway bridge due to a truck collision, whereas the second example describes a simplified indication of the robustness of a water distribution system against a landslide hazard.
Finally, in Chapter 7, a generic resilience assessment approach is proposed for critical infrastructure quantifying resilience conditional on hazard and defining four measureable / calculable indicators of technological resilience.
]]>The associate partners in IMPROVER represent critical infrastructure operators and stakeholders, civil contingencies agencies and universities, throughout Europe. The associate partners have been critical for the IMPROVER project to achieve its objectives, by sharing their experiences and reviewing the project outcomes in three workshops covering different themes.
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The June 2018 newsletter has arrived and we’ve got plenty to report:
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]]>The presentations offered understanding of how our resilience methods and tools work in real-time and how people found them to be useful in responding to everyday situations. Conducting focus groups enabled us to have in-depth discussions about what works and why, as well as what needs improvement or adaptation.
Look forward to our June Newsletter, where you can find out more about the workshop and everything else we have been up to at IMPROVER!
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