Key Concepts for Critical Infrastructure Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Engels, Jens Ivo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Civil engineering.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Technology-History.; Philosophy of Technology.; Civil Engineering.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; History of Technology.

The discussion of critical infrastructures is dominated by the use of the interlinked concepts "criticality", "vulnerability", "resilience", and "preparedness and prevention". These terms can be detected in public discourse as well as in scientific debates. Of...

Table of Contents:

• Criticality
• Vulnerability
• Resilience
• Preparedness and Prevention
• Relations between the Concepts.