Reducing Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures

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DRM:
ACS4

Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9782553016004

The methodology proposed in this manual enables the study of two important types of interdependencies between essential infrastructures:

physical and geographical. It involves defining a study area and analyzing the customer-supplier relationships between critical infrastructures and the temporal and spatial consequences of the unavailability of a given resource. These consequences are presented as curves, which depict the propagation of domino effects over time in the study area. The methodology also permits

an analysis of how critical infrastructures

will fail and enables the identification

of infrastructures vulnerable to these failures. Overlaying these layers of information

allows areas that are most sensitive

to geographical interdependencies to be identified and mitigation measures to be implemented.