CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO MODERN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO MODERN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Author(s): Gheorghe MINCULETE, Ana-Maria Chisega-NegrilăSubject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: critical infrastructures; vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures; national critical infrastructure; European critical infrastructure;
Summary/Abstract: Protection of human life and life-style refers especially to ensuring the continuous and safe functioning of those infrastructures that are vital to society, which use different forms of energy (thermal, hydraulic, electrical or wind power), services and facilities at standards imposed by the ever-changing modern society. The unprecedented increase in the last decades of risks and threats to the vital objectives of states and international organisms, coupled with the increase in their number and vulnerability have led to the settlement of the new concept known as critical infrastructure. The definition of critical infrastructures and the approaches to their protection are different from a country to another, from an organization to another, but some common structural elements, measures undertaken, compatible functions and responsibilities can still be identified.
Journal: Strategic Impact
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 40
- Page Range: 59-66
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English