Protecting Europe's critical infrastructures: Problems and prospects

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-41

  Fritzon, Åsa ^a   Ljungkvist, Kristin ^a   Boin, Arjen ^b   Rhinard, Mark ^a  

^a Swedish Institute of International Affairs   (Sweden)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; SAFETY; SECURITY;

EID: 33847657097     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2007.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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