Analysis of information exchange activities to actualize and validate situation awareness during shift changeovers in nuclear power plants

Shift work situations occur in almost all safety‐critical organizations, and the investigations of some catastrophes like Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, and the Gol/Legacy mid‐air collision indicated that shift work information exchange played an important role during the evolution of the situation before the accidents. Inadequate communications during shift changeovers challenged operators' work in the moments that preceded these accidents, because they got inadequate information about the current situation. Our research focuses on the information exchange activities (verbal, written, and nonverbal) of nuclear power plant control operators during shift changeovers. Our aim is to investigate how verbal exchanges and other representations enable operator crews to share information regarding the events that occurred in the previous shift to achieve adequate situation awareness. Our findings indicated the importance and richness of the information exchange during the shift changeover process to update and validate individual and collective situation awareness, showing that information adequately shared enables the ad hoc configurations of regulation loops and a safer use of simplified strategies that can be understood and be validated by other operators, reducing the occurrence of cognitive overloads and contributing to the construction of a common cognitive ground that enhances system resilience. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Integrating resilience in power system planning: A note for practitioners

In this article, we examine the need for integrating resilience against natural disasters in power system planning through a review of the recent literature including guidance notes prepared by multilateral development banks, US Department of Energy and the wider research community. We present the challenges faced by practitioners in implementing resilience-centric analyses, especially in developing countries where data availability is a critical constraint and development of bespoke models for each system/country is an arduous if not an impossible task. This is followed by a discussion on how such planning analysis may still be constructed within the limitation of data, methodology and tools.     

网络弹性研究进展

网络弹性(Network Resilience)必将作为下一代异构网络必要的设计与操作属性,被定义为在面临不同的失效或挑战时,能够提供和保持可接受服务水平的能力。从系统的角度对网络弹性进行了深入的研究,首先对网络弹性从定义、模型、实现与评估等方面进行深入的分析,接着讨论基于态势感知的网络弹性研究模型,并详细阐述了模型的每一层功能及实现方法,最后给出了网络弹性研究的发展方向。     

顺水而为: 武汉长江主轴滨水公园

The evolution of the Yangtze Riverfront Park in Wuhan, China highlights what many waterfront cities around the world are facing with respect to converging forces of urbanism, growth, resiliency, and ecological degradation. This site emphasizes why the public realm is a critical component in addressing all of these often-conflicting issues. By re-envisioning the 16-kilometer-longriverfront landscape, Wuhan is creating a new paradigm for its parks by embracing flooding as a regular occurrence and a driving force in the shaping of its public realm. This strategy of working with Nature and not against it allows visitors to understand and appreciate the river’s complex dynamics. The proposed development of the Yangtze Riverfront Park aims to harness the power of natural processes to nurture a rich regional ecology, improve ecosystem services, and enhance public health and recreational amenities. Informed by an extensive public engagement process and crowdsourced data, the redesign of the park reinforces Wuhan’s cultural identity by preserving decommissioned industrial infrastructure and other artifacts along the river that symbolize the city’s industrial legacy and urban history. The vision for an updated Yangtze Riverfront Park strives to create a socially inclusive, culturally relevant, and ecologically meaningful waterfront that emphasizes Wuhan’s identity of living authentically with an everchanging river.     

A resilience-based approach in managing the closure and abandonment of large mine tailing ponds

Mining tailing ponds are large infrastructure objects whose life cycle spans over several decades. They are indispensable for certain types of mines where technological process produces and rejects mud. They also have potential to generate risks for human life, property and environment. For that reason, it is essential to adequately manage them throughout all the stages of their life cycle. The phase of their closure and abandonment is less studied and understood. The paper proposes a holistic resilience-based approach for analyzing this phase of their life cycle. The proposed methodology is validated through a case study at an actual surface iron ore mine in Bosnia and Herzegovina.     

A framework for the future of urban underground engineering

A special and holistic approach is needed that captures aggregate attributes and emergent behaviors of the complex system of infrastructure systems in a region. Effective management of the impacts of future population growth, urbanization, and risks arising from continued evolution of our natural, physical and human/societal systems will require a systematic exploration and characterization of the urban subsurface, including much improved understanding and assessment of geologic risks. With recent cost escalations for underground construction projects, incentives are needed for the underground construction industry to develop and implement innovations in methods and technology, and smart integrated planning is needed to reduce costs both during construction and with life-cycle engineered design and operation of our subsurface facilities.The needed framework requires investigation of potential metrics that reflect the performance of aggregate functions of an urban environment so that we can holistically study system performance response under “normal” and “stressed” operation. Such a metric can support a cross-disciplinary exploration of urban resilience, and build knowledge as we develop and test theory and models that explore resilience of complex socio-technical systems. Econometrics with spatial and temporal granularity will help to understand the integrated functionality of our cities and to establish appropriate policies that will drive continuous improvement in the quality of urban life while providing natural, human, and physical urban environmental resilience. The underground in urban regions can become an important component of managing the increasing complexity of our physical systems, and can also make more significant contributions to improving the robustness and resilience of our future cities.     

Co-design and urban resilience: visioning tools for commoning resilience practices

Abstract

In response to the environmental and social challenges of an uncertain future, practitioners and communities across Europe and beyond have started to engage with the concept of ‘resilience’ and experiment with forms of local resilience. However, many of these initiatives tend to remain localised, isolated projects, with little capacity to instigate broader change and at risk to disappear by not having the means to become sustainable in the longer term. We suggest that one way of sustaining and scaling local resilience practices is by developing digital tools that could enable connections and knowledge sharing across locations, through commoning in the digital realm. In this paper, we introduce the specific co-design process we devised with the aim to develop an initial ‘brief’ for potential tools. By creating a co-design process that is situated, mediated, networked and open-source, we argue that the commoning process initiated in this project has the potential to evolve and expand, beyond the project time and initial user base—an essential quality in the context of collectively enhancing urban resilience through knowledge sharing and mutual support.     

韧性概念的重新审视

自《2005—2015兵库行动框架》被采纳以来,受灾社区的恢复力紧密取决于受灾社区的韧性,已经成为灾害风险控制项目的共同特征。现在人们越来越多地关注受灾社区在灾难发生后不依靠或少依靠外部援助而"反弹"或恢复的能力。与其仅仅关注受灾对象的需求和弱点,不如把着眼点放在应对灾难的韧性上,这突出了灾害风险控制领域需要转变。然而在灾害学界的研究和学术领域,对韧性这一概念达成共识依然是个挑战。本文梳理了不同情况下韧性的定义,脆弱性在韧性主题中所扮演的角色和意义,以及脆弱性和韧性之间的差异。文章最后探讨和总结了韧性思维在我们认识和应对灾害时所具有的指导意义。     

城市韧性承洪理论——另一种规划实践的基础

滨河城市面对水患问题需要一种基于韧性理论的管理方法,而不是简单地修建防洪工程来抵御。通过堤、坝和渠化的防洪工程来抵御洪水,忽略了人与自然互动时所产生的不确定因素,也无法回应因气候变化而不断增加的极端灾害,因此不是解决洪水安全问题的长期有效的方法。通过运用韧性理论提升系统存续能力,笔者提出了"城市韧性承洪"理论,作为替代目前主流方式的城市洪水灾害管理体系。该理论明确了一个城市的承洪力,以及对潜在的物质财产损失和社会经济中断等情况的预警辨识力,从而防止伤亡和保持现有的社会经济特征。通过在周期性洪水中积累经验,可以应对城市的极端洪水灾害。城市韧性承洪理论挑战了"城市如不防洪即无法生存"的传统理念,实际上传统的防洪工程破坏了应对洪水的韧性。为将此理论运用于规划实践中,笔者提出了"可浸区百分比"这一指标,用以评估城市的承洪韧性。应用自然的洪泛区功能建立城市承洪韧性,提升对洪水的适应性以替代防洪工程,将减轻洪水的危害。     

Mean points of failure and safety domains: Estimation and application

A conceptual representation of the mean points of failure and safety domains in reliability problems is presented, and a practical approach for approximating the mean points based on the first-order reliability method (FORM) is proposed. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated with two nonlinear examples. The mean points of failure and safety domains and the approach for approximating them are then used to develop an innovative method for estimating transition probabilities between failure and safety domains in discrete time-variant reliability problems. The performance of the new method is demonstrated in example problems. It is shown that, from a practical viewpoint, the method is quite effective. Although the example problems are stationary univariate systems, the method shows promise for being applicable for more complex cases, such as non-stationary multivariate systems.