This review of Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures looks at the major issues from different geographical viewpoints. The purpose of this is to give some understanding to the issues and importance of the overall subject in a number of different countries. The key countries looked at here are the UK, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Europe is also covered in some detail. This is simply because in any literature search they are clearly leaders in this field.
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(2007). Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures: Approaches by Geography. In: Critical Information Infrastructures. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71862-0_3
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