Journal: CRN Reports

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Risk and Resilience Research Group, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich

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2010 - 20124
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Publications 1 - 4 of 4
  • Focal Report 4: Risk Analysis
    Item type: Report
    Bara, Corinne; Doktor, Christoph (2010)
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    The fourth focal report focuses on cooperation in civil protection and looks at institutional cooperation arrangements at the intergovernmental/supranational level (European Union) and the national level (Spain and UK). The first part is dedicated to civil protection in the European Union (EU). The EU Community Mechanism for Civil Protection is explored with a focus on the Mechanism s tools that aim to facilitate coordination and cooperation. The second part looks at the civil protection systems of Spain and the UK. It highlights different cooperation arrangements between local, regional, and central administrative levels, and between various actors involved in civil protection (multi-agency cooperation, interdepartmental cooperation). The third part draws on the insights of the two previous parts to discuss possible lessons for Switzerland. The report concludes with an annotated bibliography on civil protection in Spain, the UK, and the EU, including government documents, online sources, and academic literature.
  • Focal Report 6: Risk Analysis
    Item type: Report
    Bara, Corinne; Brönnimann, Gabriel (2011)
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    This focal report looks at the way selected countries define and use resilience in the area of national security. The report's first part presents the results of a government monitoring: Recent policy documents from selected countries were analyzed focusing on resilience definitions, relevance, and impact on government programs. The second part looks at recent attempts to assess and measure resilience both in academia and in national security policy. The third part draws on the insights of the two previous parts to discuss possible lessons for Switzerland.
  • Focal Report 4: Critical infrastructure protection
    Item type: Report
    Brunner, Elgin; Dunn Cavelty, Myriam; Giroux, Jennifer; et al. (2010)
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    This report explores the manner in which protection goals are defined in critical infrastructure protection (CIP). It identifies and analyzes the protection goals in eight Western countries and, based on this empirical analysis, asks: What protection goals are defined? What purpose do they serve? What aspects do they cover? Who defines them? The report shows that three types of protection statements on three levels of strategy are discernible: protection principles, policies, and goals. With regard to the Protection Goals Model of the National Platform for Natural Hazards (PLANAT), the report shows that a dynamic, interactive process is most suitable and practicable. The report concludes that if protection goals are to be defined for the Swiss CIP strategy, they should be oriented towards protection policies, which help to translate protection principles into less abstract concepts.
  • Focal Report 6: Assessing Threats in Cyberspace
    Item type: Report
    Brönnimann, Gabriel; Gartmann, Thomas; Giroux, Jennifer; et al. (2012)
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    This report examines and compares publically available public and private cyber threat reports so to identify similarities and differences in threat assessment methodology, audience, and purpose. Overall, our findings observe a shift from the (near exclusive) use of quantitative methods to a mixed-method approach that increasingly favors qualitative methods such as anecdotal evidence and in-depth case studies to assess and communicate cyber incidents.
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