Date of Graduation
12-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (MSIE)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Industrial Engineering
Advisor/Mentor
Sarah G. Nurre Pinkley
Committee Member
Kelly M. Sullivan
Second Committee Member
Benjamin R. Runkle
Keywords
food scarcity, productivity
Abstract
This work classifies examples of infrastructure interdependencies found in the food and agriculture critical infrastructure sector. Interdependencies are identified through an examination of rice and poultry agriculture throughout the state of Arkansas. The subtleties of interdependence examples in the food and agriculture sector are inadequately captured by the well-studied interdependence classification taxonomies. Through 39 interviews, we develop an understanding of the subtle temporal, geographic, and productivity scales of interdependence in over 100 examples and present five new, distinct classifications of interdependence: (1) dynamic physical, (2) dynamic geographic, (3) deadline, (4) delay, and (5) human, economic, and natural resource interdependencies. An analysis of these inter- dependencies and their intricacies provides the opportunity to generalize these ideas across other critical infrastructure sectors and model infrastructure restoration and resilience with greater concern for seasonality, resource scarcity, and punctuality.
Citation
Doerpinghaus, J. (2018). Classifying Interdependencies in the Food and Agriculture Critical Infrastructure Sector. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3112
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