The past several decades have witnessed an increasing number of natural and manmade
hazards with a dramatic impact on the normal operations of the society. The occurrences of …

As modern society becomes ever more dependent on the availability of electric power, the
costs that could arise from individual and social vulnerability to large outages of long …

This study identifies historical extreme events and analyzes their impacts on social
vulnerability, stability, and resilience in ancient China. We reconstructed extreme event …

This study presents a generalised critical infrastructures resilience model for extreme events
with a focus on power grids. Infrastructures are modelled as three domains–physical, cyber …

Departing from common practice using income and employment, we investigate the
resilience of European countries on the occasion of the Great Recessions in terms of …

This thesis builds upon three main pillars: resilience, multidimensional well-being, and
decentralisation. Resilience is a rather comprehensive and increasingly multidisciplinary …

Abstract Micro Nuclear Reactors (MNRs) are an emerging innovation in nuclear technology
as small, portable, and self-sufficient reactor units in the size of a standard 40-foot shipping …