Novel Indicators for Identifying Critical INFRAstructure at RISK from Natural Hazards

e achievements of the European Union targets regarding energy and socio-economicsustainability are highly dependent on the way risks and vulnerabilities of European operatinginfrastructure networks and critical assets are minimised against natural extreme events. eINFRARISK project is developing reliable stress tests for European critical infrastructure usingintegrated modelling tools for decision-support. As a result it is possible to obtain higher infrastructurenetworks resilience to rare and low probability extreme events. INFRARISK advancesdecision making approaches and leads to beer protection of existing infrastructure whilst achievingmore robust strategies for the development of new ones. INFRARISK expands existing stresstest procedures and adapts them to critical land-based infrastructure, which may be exposed to orthreatened by natural hazards. Integrated risk mitigation scenarios and strategies are employed,using local, national and pan-European infrastructure risk analysis methodologies. ese take intoconsideration multiple hazards and risks with cascading impact assessments. e INFRARISK approachrobustly models spatio-temporal processes with propagated dynamic uncertainties in multiplerisk complexity scenarios. An operational framework with cascading hazards, impacts anddependent geospatial vulnerabilities is developed. is framework is a central driver to practicalsoware tools and guidelines that provide greater support to the next generation of European infrastructuremanagers to analyse and handle scenarios of extreme events. e minimisation of theimpact of such events by the supporting tools establishes optimum mitigation measures and rapidresponse. INFRARISK delivers a collaborative integrated platform where risk management professionalsaccess and share data, information and risk scenario results efficiently and intuitivel