New Critical Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions

New Critical Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions provides a comprehensive analysis of topics essential to the consideration and protection of critical infrastructures and services on an integrated and holistic level.

Through a methodological framework approach, this book examines the challenges presented by both traditional risks and emerging threats. This includes traditional pressures on critical infrastructure including weather events and natural disasters, as well as human-caused events like sabotage, industrial accidents, and terrorism. The focus of this book goes beyond these standard considerations to include game-changing, wholly impactful implications, such as: climate change, over-urbanization and the corresponding pressure on critical infrastructures, aging infrastructure and the lack of funds and political will for upgrades and maintenance, increasing risks of interdependencies and the cascading effects of such reliance, as well as hybrid threats that can include political and geographical conflicts—currently seen in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This book examines both developed countries, such as the U.S. and Canada, as well as small countries with limited resources and opportunities. In this, the authors examine the role that regional organizations such as the European Union (EU) can play in striving to standardize the behavior of member states, but also to help acceding countries and partner countries. The goal is to outline the different perspectives from which public and private institutions and owners of critical infrastructures approach challenges, with the intent to increase the means to increase cooperation and coordination toward the same goals: ultimately, to strength resilience and protecting critical infrastructures in the physical and cyber world.

Equipping readers with the tools and strategies needed to navigate the evolving landscape of critical infrastructure, this book is a valuable resource for professionals across numerous fields, such as cybersecurity, infrastructure management, risk assessment and public policy. It will also be of keen interest to students and academics who wish to develop their understanding of key infrastructure.