Energy Resilience and Climate Protection: Energy systems, critical infrastructures, and sustainability goals

The world is becoming increasingly interconnected, fast-moving, and unpredictable, with global risks directly impacting critical infrastructures such as energy, information technology, telecommunications, transportation, health, water, food, finance, insurance, government, and administration. The Corona crisis of 2020/2021 has highlighted the inadequate preparation for pandemics, and complex crisis phenomena can mutually amplify and escalate within a short period of time. This publication addresses the challenges of energy resilience and climate protection, which will require immense attention in the future.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 108 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

The rapidly evolving, interconnected, and unpredictable global landscape presents an unprecedented array of known and yet-to-be-discovered challenges and risks. These risks have a direct impact on vital infrastructures, particularly those related to energy supply. Achieving a high level of functionality for critical infrastructures (CRITIS), encompassing sectors such as energy, information technology, telecommunications, transportation, traffic, health, water, food, finance, insurance, government, administration, media, and culture, is essential for a modern industrial society.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/2021, the inadequacy of global pandemic preparedness became glaringly evident. While the likelihood of epidemic outbreaks and their widespread dissemination has increased significantly in recent decades, it was predictable to a certain extent. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that in a globally interconnected world, complex crisis phenomena can mutually amplify, leading to rapid escalation within a short timeframe. Specifically, the deficiencies in preparedness for major risks exposed during the pandemic cannot be addressed solely by individual nation-states, particularly considering the continuous rise in the probability of such events in recent decades, driven by factors such as globalization, urbanization, climate change, and its consequences.

This publication aims to address the critical challenges of energy resilience and climate protection, which will require unwavering attention in the years to come.

Weight: 176g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783658375638
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022