New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk
Abstract Space systems have become a key enabler for a wide variety of applications that are vital to the functioning of advanced societies. The trend is one of quantitative and qualitative increase of this dependence, so much so that space systems have been described as a new example of critical in...
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| author | Adrian V. Gheorghe Alexandru Georgescu Olga Bucovețchi Marilena Lazăr Cezar Scarlat |
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| description | Abstract Space systems have become a key enabler for a wide variety of applications that are vital to the functioning of advanced societies. The trend is one of quantitative and qualitative increase of this dependence, so much so that space systems have been described as a new example of critical infrastructure. This article argues that the existence of critical space infrastructures implies the emergence of a new category of disasters related to disruption risks. We inventory those risks and make policy recommendations for what is, ultimately, a resilience governance issue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1cfe4a878d8940979037683fb43a54eb2022-12-21T19:48:47ZengSpringerOpenInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science2095-00552192-63952018-12-019455556010.1007/s13753-018-0197-2New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption RiskAdrian V. Gheorghe0Alexandru Georgescu1Olga Bucovețchi2Marilena Lazăr3Cezar Scarlat4Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, Old Dominion UniversityRomanian Association for Space Technology and Industry (ROMSPACE)Romanian Association for Space Technology and Industry (ROMSPACE)Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency of the Romanian Ministry of Defense (METRA)University Politehnica of BucharestAbstract Space systems have become a key enabler for a wide variety of applications that are vital to the functioning of advanced societies. The trend is one of quantitative and qualitative increase of this dependence, so much so that space systems have been described as a new example of critical infrastructure. This article argues that the existence of critical space infrastructures implies the emergence of a new category of disasters related to disruption risks. We inventory those risks and make policy recommendations for what is, ultimately, a resilience governance issue.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2Complex systemsInfrastructure disruptionResilience governanceSpace infrastructureSystem interdependencies |
| spellingShingle | Adrian V. Gheorghe Alexandru Georgescu Olga Bucovețchi Marilena Lazăr Cezar Scarlat New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk International Journal of Disaster Risk Science Complex systems Infrastructure disruption Resilience governance Space infrastructure System interdependencies |
| title | New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk |
| title_full | New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk |
| title_fullStr | New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk |
| title_full_unstemmed | New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk |
| title_short | New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk |
| title_sort | new dimensions for a challenging security environment growing exposure to critical space infrastructure disruption risk |
| topic | Complex systems Infrastructure disruption Resilience governance Space infrastructure System interdependencies |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2 |
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