Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation

Large dams journey

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12598656
AutoresIgnacio Escuder‐Bueno (0000-0002-3929-4216, Universitat Politècnica de València, autor correspondente), Eric Halpin (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC, USA)
Ano2016
Volume21
Fascículo11
Páginas1313-1330
Data de publicação2016-08-09
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Risk Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-9877 • E-ISSN: 1466-4461
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13669877.2016.1215345
OpenAlexW2487827722
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas30

There is ample recognition of the risk inherent in our very existence and modes of social organization, with a reasonable expectation that implementing risk governance will result in enhanced resilience as a society. Despite this, risk governance is not a mainstream approach in the infrastructure sector, regardless of the increasing number of peer-reviewed published conceptualizations, mature procedures to support its application, or public calls to cope with systemic risks in our modern societies. This paper aims to offer a different view on the issue of risk governance, with focus in the analysis of the root causes of its relatively low degree of implementation in the infrastructure sector. We later analyze the impact of such essential causes, which we have grouped and labeled as the ontology, the concerns, the anathemas, and the forgotten, in the specific field of large dams. Finally, we describe the journey toward risk governance in the specific field of large dams, thus supporting the ultimate objective of this paper to facilitate an evidence-based approach to successful risk governance implementation within and outside the dam sector

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