A capabilities approach to the prioritization of critical infrastructure
A capabilities approach to the prioritization of critical infrastructure
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DOI：
10.1007/s10669-018-9691-8
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
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Chester, Mikhail V.
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作者：
Clark, Susan Spierre;Seager, Thomas P.;Chester, Mikhail V.
作为美国加强基础设施安全和弹性的努力的结果，国土安全部(DHS)和其他美国联邦机构确定了16个关键基础设施部门，这些部门被认为对国家的经济安全、公共健康和安全至关重要。然而，仍然没有一套明确的价值观来证明这一特定的基础设施系统清单是合理的，或者决策者在危机期间如何将投资优先于一个关键部门而不是另一个部门。为了提供更全面的关键基础设施恢复能力方法，本研究采用了人类发展的能力方法，该方法提供了关键基础设施的另一种视角，侧重于基础设施提供的服务，而不是其物理状况或对威胁的脆弱性。这种以服务为基础的基础设施观点强调了基础设施在促进和支持建设适应能力和改善人类福祉的中央人类能力方面的作用。我们认为，最关键的基础设施系统是那些对提供和/或支持核心人类能力至关重要的系统。本文从能力的角度考察了国土安全部对关键程度的指定，并论证了区分那些应该被认为是最关键的系统和那些可能暂时被牺牲的系统的能力基础。这项工作的一个关键影响是，需要采取跨部门的办法，围绕最有价值的基础设施终端服务重组现有的关键基础设施工作。
As a consequence of the U.S. effort to increase infrastructure security and resilience, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other U.S. federal agencies have identified 16 critical infrastructure sectors that are considered vital to the nation's well-being in terms of economic security, public health, and safety. However, there remains no articulated set of values that justify this particular list of infrastructure systems or how decision-makers might prioritize investments towards one critical sector over another during a crisis. To offer a more integrated and holistic approach to critical infrastructure resilience, this research employs the capabilities approach to human development, which offers an alternative view of critical infrastructure that focuses on the services that infrastructure provides rather than its physical condition or vulnerability to threats. This service-based perspective of infrastructure emphasizes the role of infrastructure in enabling and supporting central human capabilities that build adaptive capacity and improve human well-being. We argue that the most critical infrastructure systems are those that are essential for providing and/or supporting central human capabilities. This paper examines the DHS designation of criticality from a capabilities perspective and argues for a capabilities basis for making distinctions between those systems that should be considered most critical and those that might be temporarily sacrificed. A key implication of this work is that an across sector approach is required to reorganize existing critical infrastructure efforts around the most valuable infrastructure end-services.