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Society depends decisively on the availability of infrastructure systems such as energy, telecommunication, transportation, banking and finance, health care and governmental and public administration. Even selective damages of one of these infrastructures may result in disruptions of governmental, industrial or public functions. Vulnerability of infrastructures therefore provides spectacular leverage for natural disasters as well as criminal and terrorist actions. Threats and risks are part of the technological, economical, and societal development. This article focuses on the development and characterization of an integrative risk-management which, from the perspective of “resilient systems”, can be seen as an innovative and pro-active crisis management approach dealing with the increasing amount of complexity in societies in a comprehensive, agile and adaptive way.
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Al-Khudhairy, D., Axhausen, K., Bishop, S. et al. Towards integrative risk management and more resilient societies. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 214, 571–595 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01706-0
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