Monstadt, Jochen ; Schmidt, Martin (2024)
Urban resilience in the making? The governance of critical infrastructures in German cities.
In: Urban Studies, 2019, 56 (11)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00016615
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Over the last decade, the protection of urban infrastructures has become a focus in German security policies. These point not solely to the multiple external infrastructural threats (e.g. natural disasters, terrorist and cyber-attacks), but also to the endogenous risks of cascading failures across geographical and functional borders that arise from interlocking and often mutually dependent infrastructures. As geographical nodes in infrastructurally mediated flows, cities are considered to be particularly vulnerable to infrastructure breakdowns. Their capability to prevent and to prepare for infrastructural failures, and thus to manage infrastructural interdependencies, is seen as a major prerequisite for resilient societies. However, as our article demonstrates, the institutional capacity of the local authorities and utility companies for risk mitigation and preparedness is limited. Drawing on qualitative research in selected German cities, we argue that the governance of critical infrastructures involves considerable challenges: it overarches different, often fragmented, policy domains and territories and institutionally unbundled utility (sub-) domains. Moreover, risk mitigation and preparedness are usually not based on experience from past events, but on destructive scenarios. They involve considerable uncertainty and contestations among local decision-makers. Interviews with local experts indicate that effective governance of critical infrastructures requires more regulatory efforts by national policies. At the same time, they point to the need for identifying and assessing place-based vulnerabilities, for defining locally differentiated mitigation and preparedness strategies and for the training of local utility companies as well as crisis management.
| Typ des Eintrags: | Artikel | ||||
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| Erschienen: | 2024 | ||||
| Autor(en): | Monstadt, Jochen ; Schmidt, Martin | ||||
| Art des Eintrags: | Zweitveröffentlichung | ||||
| Titel: | Urban resilience in the making? The governance of critical infrastructures in German cities | ||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | ||||
| Publikationsjahr: | 21 Mai 2024 | ||||
| Ort: | Darmstadt | ||||
| Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2019 | ||||
| Ort der Erstveröffentlichung: | London | ||||
| Verlag: | SAGE Publications | ||||
| Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: | Urban Studies | ||||
| Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: | 56 | ||||
| (Heft-)Nummer: | 11 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00016615 | ||||
| URL / URN: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/16615 | ||||
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| Herkunft: | Zweitveröffentlichung DeepGreen | ||||
| Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Over the last decade, the protection of urban infrastructures has become a focus in German security policies. These point not solely to the multiple external infrastructural threats (e.g. natural disasters, terrorist and cyber-attacks), but also to the endogenous risks of cascading failures across geographical and functional borders that arise from interlocking and often mutually dependent infrastructures. As geographical nodes in infrastructurally mediated flows, cities are considered to be particularly vulnerable to infrastructure breakdowns. Their capability to prevent and to prepare for infrastructural failures, and thus to manage infrastructural interdependencies, is seen as a major prerequisite for resilient societies. However, as our article demonstrates, the institutional capacity of the local authorities and utility companies for risk mitigation and preparedness is limited. Drawing on qualitative research in selected German cities, we argue that the governance of critical infrastructures involves considerable challenges: it overarches different, often fragmented, policy domains and territories and institutionally unbundled utility (sub-) domains. Moreover, risk mitigation and preparedness are usually not based on experience from past events, but on destructive scenarios. They involve considerable uncertainty and contestations among local decision-makers. Interviews with local experts indicate that effective governance of critical infrastructures requires more regulatory efforts by national policies. At the same time, they point to the need for identifying and assessing place-based vulnerabilities, for defining locally differentiated mitigation and preparedness strategies and for the training of local utility companies as well as crisis management. |
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| Freie Schlagworte: | crisis management, critical infrastructures, urban governance, urban resilience, wicked problems | ||||
| Status: | Verlagsversion | ||||
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-166154 | ||||
| Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 720 Architektur | ||||
| Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 15 Fachbereich Architektur 15 Fachbereich Architektur > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung 15 Fachbereich Architektur > Fachgruppe E: Stadtplanung > Raum- und Infrastrukturplanung DFG-Graduiertenkollegs DFG-Graduiertenkollegs > Graduiertenkolleg 2222 KRITIS - Kritische Infrastrukturen. Konstruktion, Funktionskrisen und Schutz in Städten |
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| Hinterlegungsdatum: | 21 Mai 2024 09:12 | ||||
| Letzte Änderung: | 22 Mai 2024 06:51 | ||||
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