Governance Vulnerability Facets

In this chapter, several models supporting the notion governance for vulnerability assessment are presented. These include structural vulnerability, operational vulnerability, managerial vulnerability, and relational vulnerability. These notions are presented in view of Quantitative Vulnerability Assessment (QVA), which is a method to diagnose vulnerability in complex systems with a focus on strategies that could be undertaken for sustained system development. Theory supporting QVA is presented as well as the general means of transportability of the application are presented.