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

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

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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.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/967625
Keywords: Complex system; Port resilience planning; Information sharing; Operational context; Policy context
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > Nottingham University Business School
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.065
Depositing User: Fuller, Stella
Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2017 09:20
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:56
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/39596

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