ABSTRACT
Critical infrastructures (CIs) are increasingly being evaluated for their sustainability and resilience in light of the notable increase in high-impact natural hazard and human-induced events that influence socioeconomic well-being. Nowadays, resilience is defined as the capacity and ability of infrastructures to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and rapidly recover from a variety of disturbances while preserving and maintaining vital functions and minimizing impacts on people, the economy, and the environment. This concept is essential to ensure that infrastructures can withstand and recover from a wide range of natural disasters and man-made hazards, such as climate change, cyber-attacks, and other unexpected challenges. The ongoing NBSINFRA project will benefit from this study’s state-of-the-art review and the establishment of a database of resilience and sustainability indicators from previous EU projects. Finally, it leads to forming the basis for the resilience framework, which will be based upon quantitative measurable resilience indicators.
