Measuring disaster resilience: The impact of hurricane sandy on critical infrastructure systems

ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 195-204

  Comes, Tina ^a   Van De Walle, Bartel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critical infrastructure system; Decision support; Hazard; Hurricane sandy; Resilience; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; HURRICANES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC WORKS;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISASTER RESILIENCES; DISASTER RESPONSE; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RESILIENCE; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84905859939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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