The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures—such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water—is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure.
Emery Roe and Paul R. Schulman argue that designs, policies, and laws often overlook the knowledge and experiences of those who manage these systems on the ground—reliability professionals who have vital insights that would be invaluable to planning. To combat this major blind spot, the athors construct a new theoretical perspective that reveals how to make sense of complex interconnected networks and improve reliability through management, regulation, and political leadership. To illustrate their approach in action, they present a multi-year case study of one of the world’s most important ‘infrastructure crossroads, ‘ the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Reliability and Risk advances our understanding of what it takes to ensure the dependability of the intricate—and sometimes hazardous—systems on which we rely every day.
Tabela de Conteúdo
1. The Infrastructure Society2. The Interinfrastructure Challenge
3. High Reliability in Critical Infrastructures
4. A Framework for ICIS Reliability Management
5. A Framework for ICIS Risk Management
6. Our Framework in a Comparative Analytic Perspective
7. The Full Cycle of Infrastructure Operations
8. Managing Interconnected Control Variables: A Case of Electricity and Water
9. Interinfrastructural Innovation and Its Control Room Impacts: A Case Study of CAISO and MRTU
10. Interconnected Infrastructure Systems as a Complex Policy Problem
11. Toward Multiple Reliability Standards for Interconnected Infrastructure Systems
Sobre o autor
Emery Roe is Senior Research Associate at University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.Paul R. Schulman is Professor of Government at Mills College and a Senior Research Associate at University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.
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