Overview
- Contains over 130 illustrations/figures elaboration concepts of CSI: Critical Space Infrastructures
- Provides a taxonomy for CSI
- Illustrates approaches for protecting CSI against different threats
- Offers a classification of CSI based on effects on other critical infrastructures
- Sets a path forward for CSI research
Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 36)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The topics covered include the main elements of CSI, CSI taxonomy, effects of CSI on other infrastructure systems, establishing quantitative and qualitative parameters, global and national effects of CSI failure, cascading disruptive phenomena, chilling effects in various fields, CSI protection, deliberate threats to space systems (e.g., electromagnetic pulse attacks), space governance, and a path forward for CSI research.
Modern society is highly dependent on the continuous operation of critical infrastructure systems for the supply of crucial goods and services including, among others, the power supply, drinking water supply, and transportation systems; yet space systems – which are critical enablers for several commercial, scientific and military applications – are rarely discussed. This book addresses this gap.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Adrian V. Gheorghe currently serves as Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and is the Batten Endowed Chair on System of Systems Engineering with the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia, USA). He holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Power Engineering, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute (Bucharest, Romania), an MBA from Academy of Economic Studies (Bucharest, Romania), and a M.Sc. Engineering-Economics, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, (Bucharest, Romania) and a Ph.D. in Systems Science/SystemsEngineering from City University (London, U.K.) His profile includes editorship for several international scientific journals and scientific board memberships. He has published several books, including ‘Emergency Planning Knowledge’ (VdF Verlag, 1996), ‘Critical infrastructures at risk: Securing the European electric power system’ (Springer, 2006), and ‘Critical infrastructures: Risk and vulnerability assessment in transportation of dangerous goods - Transportation by road and rail’ (Springer, 2016).
Marius-Ioan Piso is a Romanian scientist serving as the head of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA). Since 1998 he is Research Professor in the Institute of Space Science Bucharest. In 1994 he undertook studies in Doctor in Physics from the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Iași, Romania. He is a graduate of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj with a degree in Physics. He is also a 1999 graduate of the National Defense College inBucharest, Romania. Since 1990, he worked for the establishment of the Romanian Space Agency and became its first executive director in 1995 and appointed President and Chief Executive officer in 2004. He did early work in gravitational radiation and space-time physics. He also performed experimental work in motion measurement and developed a class of inertial sensors and actuators with nanomagnetic fluids, authoring more than 20 patents and 40 papers. Since the late 1990’s he involved in studies and decision making for utilizing space technology in disaster management and planetary defense. For more than two decades, Marius-Ioan Piso has acted as a high-level representative for international bodies including: United Nations Committee of the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and national delegate for the European Space Agency (ESA). He is a member of several national and international research bodies on space research and development and security research including the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) serving as an elected trustee and chairman of section. He established, within the IAA, a study group on “Space Systems as Critical Infrastructures” in 2006 and organized a series of conferences on this topics and studies on planetary defense. He has received several hours including ‘Doctor Honoris Causa’ and knighthoods. An asteroid discovered in 1981 bears his name.
Polinpapilinho F. Katina serves as an Assistant Professor of Advanced Manufacturing Management in the Department of Informatics and Engineering Systems at University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Centers for System of Systems Engineering (NCSOSE) at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia; Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia; and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University – the Worldwide Campus. He holds a BSc in Engineering Technology, a MEng in Systems Engineering and a PhD in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering from the Old Dominion University and received additional training from among others, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. He is a founding board member of the International Society for Systems Pathology, Claremont, California. Dr. Katina received a 2018 Publons Peer Review Award (Top 1% in Field: Multidisciplinary). His profile includes more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference (papers) proceedings and books. His research interests include complex system governance, critical infrastructure systems, decision analysis, engineering management, manufacturing systems, system-of-systems, system pathology, systems engineering and systems science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Space Infrastructures
Book Subtitle: Risk, Resilience and Complexity
Authors: Alexandru Georgescu, Adrian V. Gheorghe, Marius-Ioan Piso, Polinpapilinho F. Katina
Series Title: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12604-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12603-2Published: 02 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12606-3Published: 13 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12604-9Published: 25 March 2019
Series ISSN: 1566-0443
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Complexity, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)