Evaluation of1 state of resilience for a critical infrastructure in a context of interdependencies

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 95-106

  Hémond, Yannick ^a   Robert, Benoît ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical infrastructures; Interdependency; Resilience; Resilience engineering; State of resilience

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC WORKS;

EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; INTERDEPENDENCY; NEW APPROACHES; RESILIENCE; RESILIENCE ENGINEERINGS; STATE OF RESILIENCE;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84866179722     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2012.049030     Document Type: Article

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