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Recent U.S. national mandates are shifting the country’s homeland security policy from one of asset-level critical infrastructure protection (CIP) to allhazards critical infrastructure resilience, creating the need for a unifying framework for assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems and the economies that rely on them. Resilience has been defined and applied in many disciplines; consequently, many disparate approaches exist. We propose a general framework for assessing the resilience of infrastructure and economic systems. The framework consists of three primary components: (1) a definition of resilience that is specific to infrastructure systems; (2) a quantitative model for measuring the resilience of systems to disruptive events through the evaluation of both impacts to system performance and the cost of recovery; and (3) a qualitative method for assessing the system properties that inherently determine system resilience, providing insight and direction for potential improvements in these systems.
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Vugrin, E.D., Warren, D.E., Ehlen, M.A., Camphouse, R.C. (2010). A Framework for Assessing the Resilience of Infrastructure and Economic Systems. In: Gopalakrishnan, K., Peeta, S. (eds) Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11405-2_3
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