The vulnerability of each lifeline may depend on: the type of hazard, the spatial density of its critical linkages, the dependency on critical linkages, susceptibility to damage and speed of service restoration, state of repair or age, and institutional characteristics or ownership.
Crackly mobile phone conversations, a lifeline or not, depending on the news at the other end of them.
That is a lifeline for Hungary's energy company, MOL, which otherwise depends solely on oil from the east and is fighting attempts by a Russian company, Surgutneftegaz, to gain control.The biggest problem is that energy security costs money.
Thus, the number of narrative sessions depends on the number of events identified on the lifeline, but should generally be limited to 6 9 weekly sessions.
In a country where 40 percent of the population depends on remittances from relatives abroad, however, these transactions are a lifeline.
Many big banks are happy to depend on the lifeline from the Fed and hang onto their toxic assets hoping for a rebound in prices.
Chinese strategists have expressed growing worry about depending on a lifeline of oil tankers stretching across the Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca, a waterway plagued by piracy, and across the South China Sea, protected mainly by the United States Navy.
"Millions of Americans depend on the lifeline these meals provide," Loebsack said in a press release this week.
These infrastructure networks and systems support urban living, and provide lifeline services upon which we depend for our health, education, transport and social networking.
The United States should welcome greater support not only from Japan but from other countries with powerful navies that depend on the lifeline of Middle East oil for their energy security - India, South Korea and China.
