Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets

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In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” There is a pervasive feeling that any attempt to make sense of the current terrain of complex systems must involve thinking outside the box and originating unconventional approaches that integrate organizational, managerial, social, political, cultural, and human aspects and their interactions.
This textbook offers research-based models and tools for diagnosing and predicting the behavior of complex techno-socio-economic systems in the domain of critical infrastructures, key resources, key assets and the open bazaar of space, undersea, and below-ground systems. These models exemplify emblematic models in physics, within which the critical infrastructures, as well as society itself and its paraphernalia, share the profile of many-body systems featuring cooperative phenomena and phase transitions – the latter usually felt as disruptive occurrences.
The book and its models focus on the analytics of real-life-business actors, including policy-makers, financiers and insurers, industry managers, and emergency responders.
Contains over 200 color illustrations and figures elaborating on models and concepts dealing with risk, vulnerability, resilience, fragility, and perceptionIntroduces the concepts of space, undersea, and below-ground systems to the triplex of critical infrastructure, key resources, and key assets
Presents a holistic approach to Quantitative Risk Assessment in different systemsElaborates a model for system resilience governance architectures that addresses systems management, system resilience governance evaluation, and complex situation management

Contains over 200 color illustrations and figures elaborating on models and concepts dealing with risk, vulnerability, resilience, fragility, and perception Introduces the concepts of space, undersea, and below-ground systems to the triplex of critical infrastructure, key resources, and key assets Presents a holistic approach to Quantitative Risk Assessment in different systems Elaborates a model for system resilience governance architectures that addresses systems management, system resilience governance evaluation, and complex situation management Features six standalone appendices, including a model for hierarchical holographic vulnerability assessment, complex system governance, system pathologies, and a lexicon for threat index Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Adrian V. Gheorghe

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“This is the first book to sufficiently address the triplex of CI, KR, and KA in view of understanding and managing risk, vulnerability, fragility, and perception for adequate governance of complex systems.” (Dr. Behnido Y. Calida, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA)

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