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The Risk of Not Being Resilient

Igor Linkov, PhD

Science Fellow, US OECD, Paris

Risk and Decision Sciences Team Lead

Environmental Laboratory/ERDC

12 June 2017

[email protected]

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This presentation does not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Government, and is only the view of the author

Innovative solutions for a safer, better worldBUILDING STRONG®

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Global RisksWorld Econ. Forum2017

EmergingGlobalRisks

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Innovative solutions for a safer, better worldBUILDING STRONG® Figure taken from Allianz Report 2017


Risk Assessment and Management

Requires specific knowledge and quantification of all three components

No temporal component

Modern system complexity and threat uncertainty make risk management difficult and expensive.

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Emergingthreats

Generateddata about threats

Risk Analytics

Time

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Increasing Gap

Increasing gap requires innovative management

Challenge


• Further investment in risk will only yield marginal returns

• Governments and industry should value and encourage resilience thinking

Costs of Buying Down Risk

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Costs of Business Interruption


Resilience Definitions

Definition released by OECD Public Governance Committee:

► “…the ability to resist, absorb, recover from or successfully adapt to adversity or a change in conditions

Consistent with the National Academies of Science (NAS) definition of resilience:

► “…the ability to plan and prepare for, absorb, recover from, and adapt to adverse events”

OECD directorates indicate that resilience needed to combat economic, social, and environmental risks on social systems

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How Resilience can Help?


Government

Academia

OECD Risk and

Resilience

Industry/

BIAC

PUBLIC

OECD’s Role

After Trump, Linkov et al 2016

Provide guidance for unique considerationswithin each governance jurisdiction:

What rules/regulations exist, and how do they capture the process and products of emerging risks?

How do the unique political and institutional frameworks of a given jurisdiction affect emerging risk governance?

Do these regulatory differences influence the perception of risk by local experts and regulators?

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Regulatory change is typically slow in most democracies, particularly in the

case of emerging technologies.

Kuzma, J., & Tanji, T. (2010). Unpackagingsynthetic biology: Identification of oversight policy problems and options. Regulation & Governance, 4(1), 92-112.


US Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Environmental LaboratoryCoastal & Hydraulics LaboratoryGeotechnical & Structures LaboratoryInformation Technology LaboratoryHeadquarters (Vicksburg, MS)

Construction EngineeringResearch Laboratory(Champaign, IL)

Topographic Engineering Center(Alexandria, VA)

Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory(Hanover, NH)

Field Offices

Laboratories

2500 Employees

Research Laboratoriesof the

Corps of Engineers

Over 1000 engineers and scientists 28% PhDs; 43 %

MS degrees, $1.3B Budget Annually

Risk and Decision Science Team Boston, MA)

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• Short Cycle Time• New Competencies• Adaptive Planning • Integrated Joint • Interdependent

Information Age

• Developed Rules• Mature Markets• Narrowing Customer Base• Security=Defense

Globalization II• Emerging Rules• Market Opportunities• New Customer Base Emerging• Security=All Else+Defense

Globalization III

• Long Cycle Time• Well Developed Tools/Processes• Deliberate Planning• Deconflicted Joint• Tortured Interoperability

Industrial Age

Global Trends and Military

After Cebrowski, 2003


Command and Control actions in a highly networkedsystem is governed by domains of warfare that organize system components and establish a basis for measurement.

Physical: system performance in space and time.

Information: creation, manipulation and sharing information.

Cognitive: translating, sharing, and acting upon information to enable system management.

Social: interaction, collaboration and self-synchronization between individuals and entities.

Military Systems Doctrine as a Foundation for Resilience

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Resilience: Political Importance and Challenge

Executive Order: "resilience" means the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to changing conditions and withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from disruptions.


Critical Function

Time

Threshold

Memory

Resilience Formulation

After Connelly et al., 2016

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Component vs. System

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Calculate needed height of seawall or dune

Ocean

Bay

Risk Assessment – Focus on Finding Weak Link:


Resilience -- Management at System Level

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Stockpile of sand in case of breach

Living shorelinesReef to

break waves

Consider climate change

Buried seawall

Raised infrastructure

Ocean

Bay

Potential for breaching from bay

• Anticipate weak links and be ready to recover. Ex: sand to close new inlets.• Provide diverse and redundant protection. Ex: buried seawall AND beach/dune system.

• Ensure availability of alternate networks. Ex: multiple electrical power circuits.

• Provide accessible information for rapid decision‐making. Ex: raised homes, evacuation routes

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Critical Function – Stakeholder Engagement

System has multiple functions, but not all of them are equally important► Stakeholder elicitation is required

► Prioritization of project alternatives

► Values, preferences

► Public education

19“We want to include you in this discussion without letting you affect it”


Risk and Resilience: Thresholds

Plan Adapt

Time

Critical Functionality

System Resilien

ce

RiskAnalysis

Consequence

Risk

After Linkov et al, Nature Climate Change 2014

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Importance of Recovery

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Low HighRisk

From Linkov et al, Nature Climate Change 2014

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Quantifying Resilience - Resilience Matrix

Physical

Information

Cognitive

Social

PREPARE ABSORB RECOVER ADAPT

System DomainsDisruptive Event Stages

Scale

Home Neighborhood Town County Region State Country

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Time

AdaptRecoverAbsorbPlan/PreparePrevious Cycle

• State and capability of equipment and personnel, network structure

• Event recognition and system performance to maintain function

• System changes to recover previous functionality

• Changes to improve system resilience

Physical

Information • Data preparation, presentation, analysis, and storage

• Real-time assessment of functionality, anticipation of cascading losses and event closure

• Creation and improvement of data storage and use protocols

• Data use to track recovery progress and anticipate recovery scenarios

Cognitive • System design and operation decisions, with anticipation of adverse events

• Contingency protocols and proactive event management

• Design of new system configurations, objectives, and decision criteria

• Recovery decision-making and communication

Adverse Event

Social • Social network, social capital, institutional and cultural norms, and training

• Resourceful and accessible personnel and social institutions for event response

• Addition of or changes to institutions, policies, training programs, and culture

• Teamwork and knowledge sharing to enhance system recovery

From: Linkov et al, Env. Sci. & Tech., 2013

General Form of Resilience Matrix

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OECD Directorates Resiliency Involvement. OECD directorate publications denoted as they discuss the four stages of resilience “directly” vs. “indirectly,” or not at all.

Resilience at OECD

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OECD Resilience Quantitative Approaches. Examples of resilience-based quantitative analyses discussed among OECD directorate publications.

Discussion of Quantitative Approaches


Application of Resilience in OECD

The emerging science of resilience has not been adequately featured in the body of work delivered by OECD► For many documents, a focus on Planning and Absorbing Risk,

with less attention paid to system Recovery and Adaptation

While the OECD directorates agree that resilience should be considered in systems development, OECD directorates focus heavily on resilience planning and preparation► Emphasis on other resilience features including system threat

absorption, recovery, and adaptation are less prevalent

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Resilience Matrix: OECD Divisions vs. US Agencies

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OECD Directorate vs. US Agency resilience actions “directly” addressed (relative to NAS definition) in physical, information, and social domains. OECD publications discuss resilience within social domain while US agencies discuss resilience heavily within infrastructure domain.


Recommendations and Way Forward

A normalized and operationalized definition of resilience within the OECD is useful to build adequate quantitative measures across directorates

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1. Assessment using Decision Analysis

Use developed resilience metrics to comparatively assess the costs and

benefits of different courses of action


Pilot Study in Jamaica Bay, NYTest two analyses to calculate present-day resilience

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• Tier 1: Resilience Matrix, screening

• Tier 2: Integrated Risk/Resilience Assessment using Bayesian probabilistic analyses; appropriate for design

Jamaica Bay, NY

NACCS Planning Reaches

Jamaica Bay

POC: Julie Rosati, ERDC, CHL

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How it works: Project Evaluation

Baseline assessment can be used to evaluate proposed projects Prepare Absorb Recover Adapt

Physical 71 16 60 10

Information 63 45 21 18

Cognitive 90 49 38 27

Social 82 54 12 52

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Prepare Absorb Recover Adapt

Physical +10 +18 +9 +32

Information +8 +17

Cognitive

Social


Physical

Information +5 +15 +22

Cognitive

Social +3 +12 +21


Physical 81 34 69 42



Social 82 54 12 52


Physical 71 6 60 10



Social 85 54 24 73

Project 1 Project 2

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*Projects may have (+) or (-) in other matrices


Problems with Metrics-Based Approaches

•Measuring for emerging threats remains difficult: the gap between measures and increased vulnerabilities can be hard to close

•Many measurement programs utilize data that does not contribute to informing decisions or changing behavior.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.Albert Einstein

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2. Future: Network ScienceWe quantify resilience by using network science approach by considering the different domains as interdependent multiplex networks.


Why Network Science Approach?

►Most of the complex systems can be modeled as interconnected networks –as soon as a system is represented as a network it becomes a mathematical object

►Network representation allows better analysis of interplay between individual components comprising the system

►Better visualization

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Network-based Resilience Theory?

System’s critical functionality (K)

Network topology: nodes ( ) and links ( )

Network adaptive algorithms ( ) defining how nodes’ (links’) properties and parameters change with time

A set of possible damages stakeholders want the network to be resilient against )

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Transportation Networks – DC

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Resilience Quantification

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►Based on NAS Definition

►Widely Applicable


Efficiency vs. Resilience

Not shown:• New-York City

Predicted: 120 hObserved: 72 h

Efficiency

Resilience

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Government

Academia

OECD Risk and

Resilience

Industry/

BIAC

PUBLIC

OECD’s Role

After Trump, Linkov et al 2016

Provide guidance for unique considerationswithin each governance jurisdiction:

What rules/regulations exist, and how do they capture the process and products of emerging risks?

How do the unique political and institutional frameworks of a given jurisdiction affect emerging risk governance?

Do these regulatory differences influence the perception of risk by local experts and regulators?


Comparative Assessment of Risk and Resilience Culture

Cross-comparison of Regulatory Risk Culture of Three Cases

After Trump et al 2017

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Top-DownDecision Analysis/Social Science

Bottom-UpRisk Assessment/ Physical Sci

Goal Identification and Problem Framing

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What are the goals, alternatives, and

constraints?

Decision Model-

What are the criteria and metrics, How do we measure

decision-maker values

Metrics Generation and Alternative Scoring

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How does each alternative score along our identified

criteria and metrics?

Data Collection-

What are fundamental properties/mechanisms

associated with each alternative?

Physical/Statistical Model-

What is the hazard?What is exposure?

Risk Characterization-

What are the risks relative to a threshold? How do they compare

to other alternatives?

Modeling

Data Collection

Management

Risk-Resilience Integration

Linkov et al., 2014


Manage resilience?

• Not all problems need to be solved

• Systems approach & integration of communities is the key

Future: Evolution of Approaches for Flood Risk Management

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References Sikula, N., Mancillas, J., Linkov, I., McDonagh, J.A. (2015). Traditional Risk Management Isn’t

Enough: A Conceptual Model for Resilience-Based Vulnerability Assessments. Environment, Systems, and Decisions.

DiMase D, Collier ZA, Heffner K, Linkov I (2015, in press) Systems Engineering Framework for Cyber Physical Security and Resilience. Environment, Systems and Decisions.

Eisenberg, D.A., Linkov, I., Park, J., Chang, D., Bates, M.E., Seager, T., (2014). Resilience Metrics: Lessons from Military Doctrines. Solutions 5:76-87.

Roege, P., Collier, Z.A., Mancillas, J., McDonagh, J., Linkov, I. (2014). Metrics for Energy Resilience. Energy Policy 72:249–256.

Linkov, I., Fox-Lent, C., Keisler, J., Della-Sala, S., Siweke, J. (2014). Plagued by Problems: Resilience Lessons from Venice. Environment, Systems, Decision 34:378–382.

Linkov, I, Kröger, W., Levermann, A., Renn, O. et al. (2014). Changing the Resilience Paradigm. Nature Climate Change 4:407-409.

Linkov, I., Anklam, E., Collier, Z., DiMase, D., Renn, O. (2014). Risk-Based Standards: Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches. Environment, Systems, and Decisions 34:134-137

Collier, Z.A., Linkov, I., DiMase, D., Walters, S., Tehranipoor, M., Lambert, J.(2014). Risk-Based Cybersecurity Standards: Policy Challenges and Opportunities. Computer 47:70-76.

Linkov, I., Eisenberg, D. A., Plourde, K., Seager, T. P., Allen, J., Kott, A (2013). Resilience Metrics for Cyber Systems. Environment, Systems and Decisions 33:471-476.

Park, J., Seager, TP, Rao, PCS, Convertino, M., Linkov, I. (2013). Contrasting risk and resilience approaches to catastrophe management in engineering systems. Risk Analysis 33: 356–367.

Linkov, I., Eisenberg, D.A., Bates, M.E., Chang, D., Convertino, M., Allen, J.H., Flynn, S.E., Seager, T.P. (2013). Measurable Resilience for Actionable Policy. Environmental Science and Technology 47:10108-10110.


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