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Safety planning

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 050-0921/02
Abbreviation BPL
Course title Safety planning
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Civil Protection
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Marek Smetana, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lessons are focused on broadening the knowledge of the area of non-military planning to ensure security. New procedures in the area of emergency planning, crisis planning, civil emergency planning, recovery planning, business continuity planning, and planning in the area of critical infrastructure protection are presented. In the area of critical infrastructure, attention is paid to critical elements, critical process and critical function. It is the case of study of system vulnerability, resilience and adaptability, criticality matrix. Decision support systems for critical infrastructure security, critical infrastructure continuity planning. Adequate attention is paid to security planning in the context of sustainable territorial development. Connections between non-military and military activities in planning to ensure territorial security on both the national and supranational levels (EU, NATO) are included as well.

E-learning

Study materials are available on the LMS Moodle VSB-TUO.

Literature

Ted G. Lewis: Critical Infrastructure protection in homeland security. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 2014. USA. ISBN: 978-1118817636 .

Advised literature

Lopez, Javier, at all: Critical Infrastructure Protection. Springer; 2012 edition (March 27, 2012). 357 pages. ISBN: 978-3642289194 
David A. McEntire: Disaster Response and Recovery. Wiley; 2 edition (December 15, 2014). 560 pages. ISBN: 978-1118673027