Organising for Resilience to Climate Change in Critical Infrastructures: The Application of Viable System Model in an Oil Refinery

Oil refineries are among industrial installations that are vulnerable to climate extreme events, whose frequency and intensity have been increasing over the last decades. Building resilience in resources to withstand climate-related hazards and to recover fast at low human and material cost, for cha...

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Published in:Systemic practice and action research 2023-08, Vol.36 (4), p.609-640
Main Authors: Adamides, Emmanuel D., Katopodis, Theodoros, Mountouris, Antonios, Sfetsos, Athanasios
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action research
Business and Management
Climate change
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Organization
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum refining
Sociology
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Summary:Oil refineries are among industrial installations that are vulnerable to climate extreme events, whose frequency and intensity have been increasing over the last decades. Building resilience in resources to withstand climate-related hazards and to recover fast at low human and material cost, for changing climate conditions, is required. In this paper, we present an action research effort for the design of a viable decentralized climate-resilience-providing virtual organization in an oil refinery in Greece using the Viable System Model. The VIPLAN method was employed for the methodological design of a distributed Climate Resilience Providing Organisation for the case of a refinery facility in Greece. The paper presents the process and the results of this effort.
ISSN:1094-429X
1573-9295
DOI:10.1007/s11213-022-09623-x