Risk and Critical Infrastructures An interpretation from the Transcurssive Logic

RICARDO PALMA ; DANTE SALATINO ; GUSTAVO MASERA

? International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Social Science Publication

Año: 2020 vol. 5 p. 17 - 25

2415-0371

The purpose of this article is to analyze risks that are related to critical infrastructures. The centralidea is that the world is entering into an era of instability and turbulence, where the risks have asystemic character. This complexity cannot be understood in the abstract when studying its harmfuleffects and, in particular, the risks induced by it. The purpose of this paper is to investigate risksaccording to the Transcurssive Logic (TL) method. This complementary method establishes that, inorder to relate a theory with the empirical aspects that support it, formal methods of analysis are notnecessary, since it does not work with contents, but with "ontological niches". Its usefulness lies inbeing able to guide on what aspect of reality we can investigate, since it allows us to identify thebasic elements that determine what is observable, and what their relationships are. Some emergingdiscussions are presented. It is proposed that the new branch of Infranomics is relevant for thecomprehensive study of risks in critical infrastructures. It can be developed as a disciplinary matrixcomplementary to the analysis of Transcurssive Logic