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Critical infrastructure · Cities and built environment
Reliability and resilience of lifeline infrastructure and the services on which communities and economies rely. This page shows the series it feeds, the evidence behind it and how to contribute.
Reliability and resilience of lifeline infrastructure and the services on which communities and economies rely.
Drawn from the Baseline Edition 2026 drafts through the systems this area reads. Each opens at its anchor in its edition, with its numbered sources.
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How Critical Infrastructure reaches Nexus Reports: what it reads, how it reads it, the sealed cut and the series it feeds.
Critical Infrastructure reads NorthStar and NET: governed sources with their releases, never a value without its source.
The evidence path of Critical Infrastructure in the pillar lanes, from the Foundry systems it reads to the Reports series it feeds and the authorities that decide.
A teaching model of the evidence path, not a forecast and not a record of any run; the systems, methods and series named come from the registries.
Sources: Critical Infrastructure in Nexus Reports (2026); Critical Infrastructure home (2026).
| Series | Foundry systems it draws on | Academy disciplines | Series home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic Systems | GRIx concentration and substitutability analysis of strategic supply NET digital backbone dependencies and continuity plans NSF the public-safe release decision that keeps sensitive detail out | Critical minerals, mining and extractives Technology security: dual-use, export controls and compute governance Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics | Open |
| Scenario and Stress-Test | DSS combined scenario sets and the option appraisals run on them GRIx the cascade paths a stress test follows | Scenario analysis and stress testing Uncertainty and decision making Systemic, compound and cascading risk | Open |
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Context
Infrastructure and its partners
Infrastructure gives pipes, dams and treatment works to water (0.6), transmission and fuel logistics to energy (0.6) and access to care to health (0.5).
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