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

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 fir...

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Main Authors: Shaw, Duncan R., Grainger, Andrew, Achuthan, Kamal
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Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39596/
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description 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.
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spelling nottingham-395962020-05-04T19:56:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39596/ Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier? Shaw, Duncan R. Grainger, Andrew Achuthan, Kamal 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. Elsevier 2017-08 Article PeerReviewed Shaw, Duncan R., Grainger, Andrew and Achuthan, Kamal (2017) Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier? Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 121 . pp. 126-138. ISSN 0040-1625 Complex system; Port resilience planning; Information sharing; Operational context; Policy context http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162516305558 doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.065 doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.065
spellingShingle Complex system; Port resilience planning; Information sharing; Operational context; Policy context
Shaw, Duncan R.
Grainger, Andrew
Achuthan, Kamal
Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier?
title Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier?
title_full Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier?
title_fullStr Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier?
title_full_unstemmed Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier?
title_short Multi-level port resilience planning in the UK: how can information sharing be made easier?
title_sort multi-level port resilience planning in the uk: how can information sharing be made easier?
topic Complex system; Port resilience planning; Information sharing; Operational context; Policy context
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