Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets: Risk, Vulnerability, Resilience, Fragility, and Perception Governance

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In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” There is a pervasive feeling that any attempt to make sense of the current terrain of complex systems must involve thinking outside the box and originating unconventional approaches that integrate organizational, managerial, social, political, cultural, and human aspects and their interactions. This textbook offers research-based models and tools for diagnosing and predicting the behavior of complex techno-socio-economic systems in the domain of critical infrastructures, key resources, key assets and the open bazaar of space, undersea, and below-ground systems. These models exemplify emblematic models in physics, within which the critical infrastructures, as well as society itself and its paraphernalia, share the profile of many-body systems featuring cooperative phenomena and phase transitions – the latter usually felt as disruptive occurrences. The book and its models focus on the analytics of real-life-business actors, including policy-makers, financiers and insurers, industry managers, and emergency responders. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, and Key Assets (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 3-37 Governance Vulnerability Facets (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 39-79 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 A Physical Analogy for Resilience and Vulnerability (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 83-91 System of Systems Governance (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 93-130 Use of Cellular Automata in Assessment of Risk and Vulnerability (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 131-148 Nuclear Reactors Vulnerability Assessment—A Generic Model (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 149-156 Emerging Space Treats and Satellites (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 157-173 Managerial Vulnerability Assessment Models (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 175-196 Airborne Emissions and Territorial Vulnerability Assessment (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 197-209 System Resilience Governance (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 211-229 Dynamic Capability Model (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 231-246 Front Matter ....Pages 247-247 Processing Switzerland (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 249-274 Vulnerability Analysis and Swiss Reduction—Building a Framework for Ranking Solutions (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 275-284 The Case for Sihl Dam (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 285-312 Urban Area Vulnerability Assessment: Cellular Automaton Approach to Airflow Dispersion in Complex Terrains (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 313-332 Vulnerability of a Regional Economy in a Global Competition (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 333-343 The Postface—Toward Space, Undersea, and Belowground Governance (Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer)....Pages 345-353 Back Matter ....Pages 355-442