Quantitative and qualitative differences worth considering in approaching critical infrastructures resilience

Need for Resilience in Critical Interdependent Infrastructures

Defining Resilience Resilience has emerged in the last decade as a concept for better understanding the performance of infrastructures, especially their behaviour during and after the occurrence of disturbances, e.g. natural hazards or technical failures. Recently, resilience has grown as a proactive approach to enhance the ability of infrastructures to prevent damage before disturbance events,...

Assessing Dependability and Resilience in Critical Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities

Critical infrastructures (CI) are very complex and highly interdependent systems, networks and assets that provide essential services in our daily life. Most CI are either built upon or monitored and controlled by vulnerable information and communication technology (ICT) systems. Critical infrastructures are highly interconnected systems and often use common ICT components and networks. Therefo...

The Road to Resilience – Critical Space Infrastructures and Space Security

Quantitative differences, qualitative outcomes

Fruit fly neuroblasts can either self-renew, rest or take on a specialized form, depending on the levels of a protein called Prospero.

Quantitative, qualitative, and collaborative methods: approaching indigenous ecological knowledge heterogeneity

I discuss the use of quantitative, qualitative, and collaborative methods to document and operationalize Indigenous ecological knowledge, using case studies from the Nepalese Himalaya and Great Basin. Both case studies applied results to natural and cultural resource management and interpretation for the public. These approaches attempt to reposition the interview subjects to serve as active co...