Abstract:
The significance of Critical Infrastructure and the important focus to enhance their
level of resilience capacity is defined by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction developed for 2015-2030. Furthermore, Goal 9 defined by the Sustainable
Development Goals calls for creating resilient infrastructure and enhancing their
capacity level. Accordingly, the resilience enhancement of the Critical Infrastructure
can be delivered by elements of Multi-Hazard Early Warning, which is a strategical
concept of Disaster Risk Reduction mechanism. This strategical integration to
resilience enhancement can be more effective with the novel technological
implementation of Early Warning dissemination. In the research study, main concern
is towards development of a strategical resilience assessment framework for Critical
Infrastructure management in Sri Lanka. Along the focused research scope, the
Transportation Infrastructure sector was focused on framework development.
Transportation sector has a wide concern in which their performance on operation
depends highly on the level of capability of adapting and recovering from a disaster
incident.
From the global level developed frameworks, the Australian Critical Infrastructure
Resilience Strategy was identified as the basis for the resilience framework
development. Based on this framework the integration of community, organizational
and technical infrastructure resilience aspects were identified as the key basis. From
the initial literature review, the parameter identification was undertaken and initial
parameter selection was undertaken. Here, the community resilience aspects were
determined through field survey in which overall 393 responses were collected. The
organizational resilience aspects were determined through telephone interviewing in
which 1004 responses were collected. The technical infrastructure resilience aspects
were determined using field studies and focus group meetings. The identified
parameter from the literature review and the initial literature survey was categorized
and filtered under the expert opinion survey. For the quantification of the resilience
capacity, the quantification of each of indicator aspects were considered. Here, the
Analytical Hierarchical Process was applied to capture the weights for the each identified parameter through expertise determination. Through this, the relationships
among each variable aspects were considered for the determination of resilience level.
With this, the applicability was determined using a case study in Amaragedara South
Grama Niladari division in Bulathsinhala Divisional Secretariat division. The key
summary output of the framework implication in regional level aspects can be
incorporated into the planning stage of the Disaster Management system in the
country.
Citation:
Shehara, P.L. A .I. (2021). A Framework for critical infrastructure management with the focus on disasters : case study approach [Master's theses, University of Moratuwa]. Institutional Repository University of Moratuwa. http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/21379