Geographic Hotspots of Critical National Infrastructure

Risk Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2490-2505

  Thacker, Scott ^a   Barr, Stuart ^b   Pant, Raghav ^a   Hall, Jim W ^a   Alderson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Criticality; disruption; geographic; infrastructure; interdependence; kernel density estimation; networks

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PUBLIC WORKS; STATISTICS;

DISRUPTION; GEOGRAPHIC; INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERDEPENDENCE; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

CONNECTIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; INVESTMENT; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 85020438927     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12840     Document Type: Article

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