Current limits of standardisation Sample Clauses

Current limits of standardisation. Due to the lack of appropriate metrics for characterization of resilience and its main attributes, standards are not accounting for other threats associated with climate change such as floods, extreme weather event, drought and high temperature. There is clearly a need for research on the potential impacts of climate change on infrastructure design. Standards do not reflect on cascading effects and systemic failures. There is a need for a broader systems perspective to account for network interdependencies (Xxxxx, 2008). Updating standards is a long process (e.g. 14 years in the example presented by Xxxxx) (Xxxxx, 2008; Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx, 2009). Developing justification for change, institutional procedures -- involving many different stakeholders from government, private and non-governmental organizations—and use of design guidance as evidence in litigation lead to conservative approach and long time frame (Xxxxx, 2008). Risk management and Business Continuity Management standards are generic and comprehensive approaches. They provide frameworks, guidelines and process-based indicators to continually update and improve the abilities of an organization to overcome a disruptive event. Generic standards do not include implementation details. For example, risk assessment standards indicate that threats should be identified by the risk assessor, but do not specify how this can be done in practice. Current research aims at improving the quality of the risk management and business continuity processes using methods with a higher degree of accuracy while staying within budget (Xxxxxx et al., 2010).