Building Up Resilience of Construction Sector SMEs and Their Supply Chains to Extreme Weather Events

• Authors: Gayan Wedawatta , Bingunath Ingirige , Dilanthi Amaratunga

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Statybų sektoriaus SVV ir jų tiekimo grandinių atsparumo ekstremaliems meteorologiniams reiškiniams ugdymas

Abstracts

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Wider scientific community now accept that the threat of climate change as real and thus acknowledge the importance of implementing adaptation measures in a global context. In the UK, the physical effects of climate change are likely to be directly felt in the form of extreme weather events, which are predicted to escalate in number and severity in future under the changing climatic conditions. Construction industry; which consists of supply chains running across various other industries, economies and regions, will also be affected due to these events. Thus, it is important that the construction organisations are well prepared to withstand the effects of extreme weather events not only directly affecting their organisations but also affecting their supply chains which in turn might affect the organisation concerned. Given the fact that more than 99% of construction sector businesses are SMEs, the area can benefit significantly from policy making to improve SME resilience and coping capacity. This paper presents the literature review and synthesis of a doctoral research study undertaken to address the issue of extreme weather resilience of construction sector SMEs and their supply chains. The main contribution of the paper to both academia and practitioners is a synthesis model that conceptualises the factors that enhances resilience of SMEs and their supply chains against extreme weather events. This synthesis model forms the basis of a decision making framework that will enable SMEs to both reduce their vulnerability and enhance their coping capacity against extreme weather. The value of this paper is further extended by the overall research design that is set forth as the way forward.

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Gana daug mokslininkų jau sutinka, kad klimato kaitos grėsmė yra reali, taigi pripažįsta, kaip pasauliniame kontekste svarbu diegti prisitaikymo priemones. Tikėtina, kad Jungtinėje Karalystėje fizinis klimato kaitos poveikis bus tiesiogiai jaučiamas per ekstremalius meteorologinius reiškinius. Prognozuojama, kad kintant klimato sąlygoms jų skaičius ir intensyvumas ateityje didės. Tokie reiškiniai paveiks ir statybų pramonę, kurią sudaro per kitas įvairiausias pramonės šakas, ūkius ir regionus einančios tiekimo grandinės. Taigi svarbu, kad statybų organizacijos būtų tinkamai pasiruošusios atlaikyti ekstremalius meteorologinius reiškinius, kurie daro tiesioginę įtaką ne tik šioms organizacijoms, bet ir jų tiekimo grandinėms, kurios savo ruožtu gali paveikti atitinkamą organizaciją. Daugiau kaip 99 proc. statybų sektoriuje veikiančių įmonių priklauso SVV kategorijai, tad šiai sričiai išties praverstų politika, gerinanti SVV atsparumą ir gebėjimą susitvarkyti. Šiame darbe pateikiama literatūros apžvalga ir trumpai pristatomas daktaro disertacijos tyrimas, kuriuo siekta išnagrinėti statybų sektoriaus SVV ir jų tiekimo grandinių atsparumą ekstremaliems meteorologiniams reiškiniams. Pagrindinis darbo indėlis, pravartus ir mokslininkams, ir praktikams, tai sintezės modelis, kuriame suformuluojami veiksniai, didinantys SVV ir jų tiekimo grandinių atsparumą ekstremaliems meteorologiniams reiškiniams. Šis sintezės modelis yra sprendimų priėmimo sistemos pagrindas, o sistema SVV leis ne tik mažinti pažeidžiamumą, bet ir didinti gebėjimą susitvarkyti esant ekstremaliems meteorologiniams reiškiniams. Šio darbo vertę dar labiau padidina bendras tyrimo modelis, pateikiamas kaip žingsnis pirmyn.

Keywords

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Extreme weather events; Construction SMEs; Resilience; Supply chains; Vulnerability

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal of Strategic Property Management
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 362-375

Contributors

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Gayan Wedawatta

• School of the Built Environment, The University of Salford, Maxwell Building, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT, UK

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Bingunath Ingirige

• School of the Built Environment, The University of Salford, Maxwell Building, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT, UK

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Dilanthi Amaratunga

• School of the Built Environment, The University of Salford, Maxwell Building, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT, UK

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DOI

10.3846/ijspm.2010.27