Resilience Building Policies and their Influence in Crisis Prevention, Absorption and Recovery

  1. Leire Labaka 1
  2. Josune Hernantes 1
  3. Eliot Rich 2
  4. Jose Mari Sarriegi 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Navarra
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    Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02rxc7m23

  2. 2 University at Albany, State University of New York
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    University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, Estados Unidos

    ROR https://ror.org/012zs8222

Revista:
JOURNAL OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

ISSN: 2194-6361

Ano de publicación: 2013

Volume: 10

Número: 1

Páxinas: 289-317

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1515/JHSEM-2012-0089 WoS: WOS:000324042100022 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Outras publicacións en: JOURNAL OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Resumo

Resilience building has become one of the most promising strategies for crisis managers to improve the security and proper functioning of critical infrastructures (CIs). Therefore, crisis managers will benefit from both general and detailed guidance for building and maintaining CI resilience levels. This paper aims to contribute to this purpose by presenting a framework that helps crisis managers improve the resilience level of CIs based on internal and external aspects of the CI that are often overlooked. This framework proposes sixteen resilience policies that have been suggested as influential in developing resilience. The influence and relative effectiveness of each policy in promoting the resilience of the system is postulated. The framework was reviewed and validated through an expert panel and a Delphi process providing grounded support for the evaluation and prioritization of the resilience policies. The results show that internal policies are the most influential ones when avoiding a crisis occurrence and external policies are most helpful when bouncing back to the usual state.