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Local governance of critical infrastructure resilience: Types of coordination in German cities

Knodt, Michèle ; Fraune, Cornelia ; Engel, Alice (2022)
Local governance of critical infrastructure resilience: Types of coordination in German cities.
In: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2022, 30 (3)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00022444
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The resilience of critical infrastructures in cities is key to being prepared for future crises. The challenge of enhancing critical infrastructure resilience addresses a multitude of actors. However, we lack conceptual, as well as empirical, understanding of how these different actors are coordinated. Therefore, this contribution asks how the different actors involved in critical infrastructure governance are coordinated at the local level. With the help of a typology of network governance coordination (political leadership, mutual exchange, and positive coordination), we look at the critical infrastructure crisis management in major German cities based on survey data with the scenario of a long‐lasting, supraregional power outage. The results show that political leadership coordination, as a unilateral and information‐based way of addressing public and private actors, is the dominant type. Only a quarter of the cities have chosen measures of mutual exchange coordination based on the consultation in an ad hoc manner. Measures of positive coordination where institutionalized joint planning is central are taken up only by a minority of German cities. Assuming that positive coordination is particularly important in dealing with unexpected events, positive coordination emerges as the missing piece of the resilience puzzle for many German cities.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2022
Autor(en): Knodt, Michèle ; Fraune, Cornelia ; Engel, Alice
Art des Eintrags: Zweitveröffentlichung
Titel: Local governance of critical infrastructure resilience: Types of coordination in German cities
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2022
Ort: Darmstadt
Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: 2022
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 30
(Heft-)Nummer: 3
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00022444
URL / URN: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/22444
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

The resilience of critical infrastructures in cities is key to being prepared for future crises. The challenge of enhancing critical infrastructure resilience addresses a multitude of actors. However, we lack conceptual, as well as empirical, understanding of how these different actors are coordinated. Therefore, this contribution asks how the different actors involved in critical infrastructure governance are coordinated at the local level. With the help of a typology of network governance coordination (political leadership, mutual exchange, and positive coordination), we look at the critical infrastructure crisis management in major German cities based on survey data with the scenario of a long‐lasting, supraregional power outage. The results show that political leadership coordination, as a unilateral and information‐based way of addressing public and private actors, is the dominant type. Only a quarter of the cities have chosen measures of mutual exchange coordination based on the consultation in an ad hoc manner. Measures of positive coordination where institutionalized joint planning is central are taken up only by a minority of German cities. Assuming that positive coordination is particularly important in dealing with unexpected events, positive coordination emerges as the missing piece of the resilience puzzle for many German cities.

Freie Schlagworte: coordination, critical infrastructure: crisis management, Germany, governance, power failure, urban resilience
Status: Verlagsversion
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-224443
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politik
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 650 Management
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 02 Fachbereich Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften
02 Fachbereich Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften > Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Hinterlegungsdatum: 10 Okt 2022 12:56
Letzte Änderung: 10 Okt 2022 19:34
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