Overview
- Risk-informed, systems approach to assessing the vulnerability of civil infrastructure
- Explicit attention to the interacting and interdependent nature of infrastructure
- Multi-sector approach across energy, transportation, water supply and other systems
- Applies lessons from natural hazards research to the protection of infrastructure against human threats
- Integrates European, Russian, and American engineering perspectives
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series C: (NASTC)
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Table of contents (16 papers)
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INTRODUCTION
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SETTING THE SCENE AND CHARACTERIZING THE THREAT
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VULNERABILITY, RISK ANALYSIS, AND RISK ASSESSMENT
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protection of Civilian Infrastructure from Acts of Terrorism
Editors: Konstantin V. Frolov, Gregory B. Baecher
Series Title: Nato Security through Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4924-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4922-4Published: 12 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4923-1Published: 04 July 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4924-8Published: 30 June 2006
Series ISSN: 1871-4668
Series E-ISSN: 1871-4692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 244
Topics: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Theory, Control, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary