A Portrait of Complexity: New Actors and Contemporary Challenges in the Global Energy System and the Role of Energy Infrastructure Security

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-56

  Giroux, Jennifer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

asymmetric threats; energy infrastructure security; energy security; environmental change; global energy system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870522213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1034     Document Type: Article

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