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The London Black Sky Seminar 2018: Infrastructure and Societal Resilience to Black Sky Hazards

Dolan, TE (Ed). (2018) The London Black Sky Seminar 2018: Infrastructure and Societal Resilience to Black Sky Hazards. (The London Black Sky Resilience Workshops ). EIS (Electric Infrastructure Security) Council: Washington DC, USA.

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Abstract

The Need for Systemic Resilience to Black Sky Hazards Infrastructure systems provide an indispensable platform for societal and economic activity. They generate and enable a continuous flow of emergent desired outcomes, without which civilisation as we know it could not exist. Modern infrastructure systems comprise an increasingly interdependent web of infrastructure components, decision making processes and the external environment. This interdependent web greatly enhances the scale and scope of benefits enabled by infrastructure, while simultaneously magnifying the potential for disruption to trigger far reaching consequences across all infrastructure sectors, society and the economy (cascading failure). Systemic Resilience to this type of cascading failure is therefore vital for a successful economy and society. We need to develop infrastructure that is resilient and can be restored following any form of disruption to normal operations. Moreover, we require societal, community, and institutional structures that are resilient to the impacts of infrastructure failure. The near universal dependence of modern infrastructures on a continuous supply of electricity, and the potential for Black Sky hazards to cause national scale power outages of indeterminate duration make these resilience goals urgent. Resilience to Black Sky hazards cannot be achieved by scaling up plans for short term localised power outages. However, the creation of systemic resilience to Black Sky hazards will yield significant benefits for short, medium and long-term resilience planning. Building on findings from the first workshop in this series, this academic seminar brought together representatives from across infrastructure disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields to examine four themes of strategic significance to such an approach. Theme 1: Managing Infrastructure and Assets for Black Sky Hazard Response, Restoration and Recovery Focused on the operational and management challenges of sustaining, restoring and recovering infrastructure assets during a black sky event. Theme 2: Resilient Processes, People and Protocols for Black Sky Hazard Alert, Emergency, Restoration and Recovery The people, plans, processes and procedures required to respond to a black sky event, and to what extent these can be developed prior to an event. Theme 3: Establishing Systemic Black Sky Resilience as a New Normal Focused on the long-term challenge of improving systemic resilience. Theme 4: Building and Enabling Black Sky Resilient Communities and Institutions –Focused on the role of community resilience and social capital, as essential complements to the infrastructure focused elements of resilience planning.

Type: Report
Title: The London Black Sky Seminar 2018: Infrastructure and Societal Resilience to Black Sky Hazards
Publisher version: https://www.eiscouncil.org/App_Data/Upload/3f6282a...
Language: English
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Keywords: Resilien*, Interdependen*, System*, Black Sky, Hazards, Cascade Failure, Power Outage
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062698
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