critical infrastructure assets

Question 1
Answer questions in paragraph form.
Identify three critical infrastructure assets in your local community and rank order them according to which one you consider to have the highest intrinsic value and the highest symbolic value. Which of the three assets is the most critical (highest consequence if destroyed or incapacitated)? Which of the three local infrastructure assets is the likeliest to suffer destruction or incapacitating event (from either a natural, man-made intentional, or man-made accidental act)? Explain your reasoning and methodology of your rank order.

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According to Sullivant (2007), critical infrastructure includes all the facilities, networks, processes, technologies, all services and assets that are critical to health, processes, security, all the economic welfare of the people and also the proper operation of the government. Critical infrastructure can either be INTERDEPENDENT or interconnected across or within the territories or even across the national borders

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