[earsc.eu] This
paper, Infrastructure Interdependencies, is the first in a special
White Paper Series entitled, The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical
Infrastructure and Emergency Response. It is intended to provide
geospatial practitioners with a summary of critical infrastructure
interdependencies, reasons why understanding these relationships is
vital to effective emergency response, and the important role
geospatial technology, data and knowledge can play in addressing our
infrastructure-related challenges.
In order to better
understand and communicate how a failure or an event in one
infrastructure sector may affect assets in other sectors, GITA’s
Research Committee undertook an effort to define the “interdependencies
of infrastructure.” The objective of this study was twofold: to
establish the key connections among important parts of our overall
infrastructure, and to respond to a membership call for applied
research in response to recent natural and manmade
disasters.
Download this white paper at DirectionaMag
