Building walls or piling up riprap protects infrastructure.
There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.
Squabbling among Republicans in Congress helped prevent the adoption of legislation this summer to enhance our technological defenses and protect infrastructure from digital attack.
The Government has focused its £650m, four-year cyber security strategy on protecting infrastructure and defending the country's national interests from attacks by states and hostile groups.
The report says that such an operation should have included "protecting infrastructure, historic sites, administrative buildings, cultural sites, financial institutions, judicial/legal sites and religious sites".
Some staff members stressed the need for further training in modern-day flood management techniques, particularly the junior members who generally bear the responsibility of being the first to protect infrastructure and communities in the event of a flood.
But with budgets tight and the likelihood of further big floods growing, they say officials must stay focused on strengthening defenses, retreating from vulnerable areas where necessary, and protecting infrastructure like power plants and hospitals.
Mr. Bandelt, 25, is pursuing a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, where he also conducts research on materials that protect infrastructure from natural hazards, as part of a fellowship with the National Science Foundation.
Saudi and council officials said the military forces would not engage with the demonstrators, but would protect infrastructure, government offices and industries, even though the protests had largely been peaceful.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari outlined a new, 12-point security plan for the country promising to better coordinate the work of the Ministries of Defense and Interior, to improve intelligence and protect infrastructure more effectively.
