DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111676
论文题名: “Someone will take care of it”. Households' understanding of their responsibility to prepare for and cope with electricity and ICT infrastructure breakdowns
作者: Heidenstrøm N. ; Throne-Holst H.
刊名: Energy Policy
ISSN: 03014215
出版年: 2020
卷: 144 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Household preparedness
; Power outages
; Responsibility
; Social practices
英文关键词: Energy policy
; Crisis management
; Energy sector
; Ethnographic interviews
; ICT infrastructures
; Key Actors
; Local knowledge
; Material resources
; Climate change
; climate change
; crisis management
; electricity supply
; information and communication technology
; infrastructure
; social network
; traditional knowledge
; weather
; Norway
英文摘要: Extensive infrastructure breakdowns are likely to become more frequent in the future as a result of continually complex and interconnected infrastructures vulnerable to weather and climate changes as well as intended attacks. By means of ethnographic interviews with households in Norway, this article examines their engagement in preparing for and coping with such breakdowns. It focusses on the division of responsibility between households, the authorities, and industry actors, and demonstrates that households do not believe they are responsible for preparedness, saw little advantage in contacting the authorities or industry actors, and chose to wait until someone handled the outage. However seemingly unprepared, households mobilised their social networks, used skills from previous experiences, local knowledge on infrastructure and weather, and material resources. Despite low engagement in the preparedness measures suggested by the authorities, we propose households to be considered key actors in societal preparedness by calling for greater attention to the socially shared practices households engage in that are not explicit preparedness actions, and for crisis management policies in the energy sector to provide the vehicles to mobilise household resources. © 2020 The Author(s) Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/167230
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作者单位: Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Stensberggata 26, Oslo, 0130, Norway; Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 31, Oslo, 0851, Norway
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Heidenstrøm N.,Throne-Holst H.. “Someone will take care of it”. Households' understanding of their responsibility to prepare for and cope with electricity and ICT infrastructure breakdowns[J]. Energy Policy,2020-01-01,144