SKI Focus Report 9: Measuring Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Possible Indicators

Author(s): Tim Prior
Series: Risk and Resilience Reports
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2015

The concept and approach of resilience is gaining traction in civil protection and critical infrastructure protection policy. This present report aims to illustrate how resilience might be assessed, and to elucidate indicators that might be useable, especially in the context of Switzerland's CIP strategy. The report explains the differences between absolute and relative assessments of resilience and outlines a selection of indicators that might be used to assess critical infrastructure(CI) resilience, using case studies where resilience indices have been developed based on a number of specific indicators.

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