There is growing interest in understanding and addressing studies about the capacity of
cities to resist, absorb, adapt, and recover from a wide variety of different threats, such as …

We analyse the performance of risk reduction strategies for terrorist attacks with Improvised
Explosive Devices (IEDs) for large governmental building structures in terms of cost …

Community resilience against major disasters is a multidisciplinary research field that
garners an ever-increasing interest worldwide. This paper provides summaries of the …

Rising extremes and varieties of threats towards socio technical systems ask for improved
overall risk control and resilience enhancement. Most current classical approaches focus on …

China has launched a pilot project to build innovative cities. To study resource curse and
evaluating pilot project for resource-based city development we use urban resilience as a …

Due to their high availability and low cost level, passive protection measures are a key factor
for reducing the vulnerability of persons within and close to assets against potentially …

In contrary to fault tree analysis (FTA) focusing on root causes of failures on system level and
to failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) focusing on effects of single failures on system …

This chapter highlights some of the main drivers and challenges for research on risk control
of critical infrastructure systems, relates to selected similar road-mapping approaches for …