Incidents involving networks delivering essential services to society across two or more countries are witnessed in the everyday life of citizens whenever exceptional weather conditions disrupt transport, power or network and information systems close to a border. Yet it proved to be more...

Vulnerability studies have evolved significantly in recent decades. Although not overly theoretical compared with some other fields of science, some important conceptual progress has been made. At the practical level, vulnerability indicators have been used either at a generic level or for...