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Watts at Stake?: Protecting North America's energy infrastructure from cascading failure and terrorist threats
2011
Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management
Due to rising consumption, electrical infrastructure has grown in size and complexity. This has allowed for an increased vulnerability of the infrastructure. Under the caveats of high-reliability organizations (HRO) theory and normal accidents theory (NAT), this paper examines two predominant threats to the North American energy sector: cascading failures and terrorism. A key consideration underlying the analysis is that NAT and HRO are not mutually exclusive; it is within both theories to
doi:10.5931/djim.v7i2.66
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