Methodology for Baltic Sea Region critical infrastructures safety and resilience to climate change analysis

The paper presents the terminology of critical infrastructure including definitions of general terms and definitions of more detailed notions. The European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection is introduced and infrastructures specified as being critical are listed. There is also presented the approach to the identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructures. Next, presented terminology and taxonomy refer to critical infrastructure networks at Baltic Sea Region. Finally, notions related to climate change and resilience and vulnerability of critical infrastructures to climate change are given. Considering strategy of critical infrastructures resilience strengthening there are distinguished and defined concepts of robustness, resourcefullness, redundancy, response and recovery.