Krízový manažment / Crisis Management

Krízový Manažment 2018, 17(2):51-59 | DOI: 10.26552/krm.C.2018.2.51-59

RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS

Nikola CHOVANČÍKOVÁ

Fakulta bezpečnostného inžinierstva Žilinskej univerzity v Žiline , Univerzitná 8125/1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovenská republika

Infrastructure is a key component of each country's sustainable development. All countries need efficient transport, energetic and communication systems which are indispensable for maintaining of the population's living standard and for the functioning of the individual state's components. These components also include those which when destructed or damaged would have a serious impact on the functioning of the state. In the state system such parts are referred to as critical infrastructure. Therefore, international organizations as well as individual states, are striving to achieve the required level of security for these key components. When increasing security levels, object operators should be also interested in resilience that has a significant impact on both the safety and the functioning of the element. Which features will work if the critical infrastructure element is damaged depends from the degree of resilience.

Keywords: critical infrastructure, level of safety, resilience

Published: September 30, 2018  Show citation