@book{iiasa13849, month = {May}, title = {Protecting Electricity Networks from Natural Hazards}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, publisher = {Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.osce.org/secretariat/242651}, abstract = {This handbook supports OSCE participating States in better protecting critical electrical energy infrastructure from natural hazards. By providing risk management options, tools and case studies, it is designed as a guide for policy-makers, state authorities, transmission networks operators and regulators in charge of protecting energy networks. In recent years the risk of supra-national power blackouts in the OSCE area causing significant economic losses has increased. One contributing factor is that extreme weather conditions occur more frequently. Another is an increased connectivity of power and telecommunication infrastructures and a higher technical complexity of the grid due to a changing energy mix, leaving industrial and commercial companies, the public and the private sector at risk.}, author = {Komendantova, N. and Kroos, D. and Schweitzer, D. and Leroy, C. and Andreini, E. and Baltasar, B. and Boston, T. and Ker{\vs}nik, M. and Botbaev, K. and Cohen, J. and Eismann, C. and Hamm, T. and Garcia-Aristizabal, A. and Ker{\vs}nik, M. and K{\"o}nig, M. and Kr{\"o}ger, W. and Lehmann, M. and De Meyer, I. and Lemmens, H. and Moeltner, K. and Mumovic, M. and Reich, J. and Sansavini, G. and Schmidthaler, M. and Steven, A. and Tomik, L. and Zobel, C. and Wenzel, F.} }