Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: How can information sharing be made easier?

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Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: How can information sharing be made easier?

Shaw, DR; Grainger, A; Achuthan, K; (2016) Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: How can information sharing be made easier? Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 121 pp. 126-138. 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.065. Green open access

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Abstract

Port resilience planning is a subset of the wider disaster resilience literature and it is concerned with how port stakeholders work together to make port systems more resilience. Port stakeholders include government departments, the port operator, ship operators, importers, agents and logistics firms. Ports are vital for the operation of cities and whole countries, especial island nations like the UK. Single port systems are multi-level systems with complex operational-level relationships and interdependencies. Additional levels to this include government and the policy-level. Preparing for the crises and disasters that might befall ports requires information sharing between stakeholders about key dependencies and alternative actions. The complexity of ports presents barriers to information sharing; as do commercial and political sensitivities. This paper uses a multi-level case study on the UK's system of ports to propose an approach to information sharing that uses the subjectivity of information from a supplier's perspective and from a user's perspective to reduce barriers of complexity, confidentiality and political sensitivity.

Type:	Article
Title:	Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: How can information sharing be made easier?
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.065
Publisher version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.065
Language:	English
Additional information:	Copyright © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.
Keywords:	Complex system; Port resilience planning; Information sharing; Operational context; Policy context
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/1540329