Critical Infrastructures at Risk Securing the European Electric Power System /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gheorghe, A.V (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Masera, M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Weijnen, M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Vries, De L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 9
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Probabilities.; Electric power production.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Power electronics.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Energy Technology.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

Europe witnessed in the last years a number of significant power contingencies. Some of them revealed the potentiality of vast impact on the welfare of society and triggered pressing questions on the reliability of electric power systems. Society has incorporated electricity as an inherent component...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• From the contents: 1: Introduction
• 2: Learning from the Past — Electric Power Blackouts and Near Misses
• 3: Infrastructures at Risk
• 4: Liberalisation and Internationalisation of the European Electricity Industry
• 5: The Security of Information and Communication Systems and the E+I Paradigm
• 6: Critical Electricity Infrastructure: Current Experience in Europe
• 7: Governing Risks in the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure
• 8: Concluding Remarks and Recommendations. Appendices. A.5.1 Security Conceptual Frameworks. A.5.2 ICS Security Standards. A.6.1 Critical Information Infrastructures and Risk Analysis Framework. A.6.2 Critical Information Infrastructure Protection — Organizational and Legal Aspects. A.7.1 Profiling the Risk Governance Gap. A.7.2 The Institutional and Regulatory Context for Risk Governance of the European Critical Electricity Infrastructure. A.7.3 Costs of Power Infrastructure Malfunctioning
• References. Glossary.