Exploring and modeling the societal safety and societal security concepts – A systematic review, empirical study and key implications

Høyland, Sindre

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2017.10.019

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“…This insight helps clarify and revitalize the current understanding of the samfunnssikkerhet concept. The detailed excerpts, the identified challenges, and the revitalization focus represent extensions of the previously published work in Høyland [2]. This paper identifies four specific challenges in the work on samfunnssikkerhet.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Following Sårbarhetsutvalget's report, the samfunnssikkerhet concept was defined as follows by the Norwegian Parliamentary White Paper No. 17 [2]:…”

Section: The Samfunnssikkerhet Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This strengthened the reliability of the analysis process [17,18]. Specifically, using a dual-monitor desktop setup, NVivo was organized for transparent and easy access to the empirical data, with the left-hand monitor displaying the identified empirical patterns ("nodes" in NVivo's terminology) from Table 2 of Høyland [2], and the content of the particular transcribed interview ("document source" in NVivo's terminology) located on the right monitor. With this organization, the existing empirical patterns were explored to identify in-depth insight/excerpts that shed light on challenges in the work on samfunnssikkerhet.…”

Section: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, the samfunnssikkerhet or societal safety concept is currently used in a broad sense that considers safety and security against challenges ranging from limited natural occurring events to threats against the nation's independence or existence [1]. This author's systematic literature review of existing security research reveals 16 scientific publications that address how the Norwegian samfunnssikkerhet or societal safety concept can be understood [2], of which only a few [3][4][5][6][7][8] represent marked developments in terms of advancing the understanding of the concept rather than just referring to it or discussing it briefly. This includes Aven et al's [3] understanding that samfunnssikkerhet is about planning to create a resilient society; Olsen et al's [4] identification of the general dimensions (extraordinary stress, complexity, and confidence) required to define samfunnssikkerhet; Jakobsson's [5] exploration of how triggers such as major accidents and risk assessments increase the focus on samfunnssikkerhet; and Junker's [6] emphasis on how samfunnssikkerhet can be strengthened through measures to promote the natural resilience of ecosystems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This exploration applies data from the author's empirical study of the samfunnssikkerhet concept in Norway. More precisely, by using detailed interview excerpts derived from a reanalysis of the empirical patterns presented in Høyland [2], the present paper provides in-depth insight into specific challenges in the work on samfunnssikkerhet in Norway. This insight helps clarify and revitalize the current understanding of the samfunnssikkerhet concept.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Contribution to Empirical Revitalization of the Samfunnssikkerhet Concept

Høyland

2018

Safety

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Current research of the Norwegian samfunnssikkerhet concept appears to be lacking, with few scientific publications advancing the understanding of the concept. This weakness is addressed through the paper's empirical exploration of challenges in the work on samfunnssikkerhet (Paper aim #1), where the resulting insight informs an epistemological understanding of the concept of samfunnssikkerhet (Paper aim #2). The paper identifies four challenges in the work on samfunnssikkerhet, which suggest that samfunnssikkerhet is about mobilizing against both known and unknown threats through broad and border-crossing cooperation and about flexible methods and design approaches. It is concluded that the paper's empirical exploration of the samfunnssikkerhet concept contributes to a clarification and overall empirical revitalization of the concept. A recommendation to safety and security researchers is to further develop the empirical understanding of the samfunnssikkerhet concept, including through validation of the challenges identified in this paper and continuous mapping of additional and future challenges. This can give the samfunnssikkerhet concept, including its relation to concepts such as resilience, risk and societal security, a clearer meaning and consequently a stronger unifying role in efforts to prevent and manage today's dynamic threats both within and outside Norway.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Following Sårbarhetsutvalget's report, the samfunnssikkerhet concept was defined as follows by the Norwegian Parliamentary White Paper No. 17 [2]:…”

Section: The Samfunnssikkerhet Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Høyland

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The Interface of Safety and Security; The Workplace

Boustras

2020

The Coupling of Safety and Security

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9/11 had a great impact on the development and occurrence of high publicity security-related incidents. One of the biggest impacts was that to public health, due to an increase in psychosocial issues. Cybersecurity incidents and processes of radicalization (either due to religious, political, or economic reasons) can have a direct result on the workplace as well as at the organizational level, which in turn can affect the worker. The aim of this chapter is to explain the main factors linking safety and security, creating a new area for workplace health and safety, that of the “interface of safety and security”.

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