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The infrastructure of a society consists of facilities such as communications, power supplies, transportation, water supplies, and the stock of buildings. In a broad definition of infrastructure, it is also possible to include basic societal functions like education, national defense, and financial and judicial systems. Here, the notion critical infrastructure will refer to the collection of large technical systems, for example electric power grids, which form the basis for most activities in a modern society, and are of great importance for the economic prosperity. Today, critical infrastructure protection is also considered to be a matter of national security.1
American security policy makes a distinction between “homeland security” and “national security”. Critical infrastructure protection is identified as a “critical mission area” in the National Strategy for Homeland Security from 2002. However, protection of the infrastructures has traditionally been an integral part of the defense in countries such as Sweden and Norway (embraced by concepts such as “total defense” and “societal security”).
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Holmgren, Å.J. (2007). A Framework for Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Power Systems. In: Murray, A.T., Grubesic, T.H. (eds) Critical Infrastructure. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68056-7_3
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