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Abstract Landslides are a significant threat to the critical infrastructures, and this hazard has two type of phenomena: in the first case, the infrastructure is targeted by a sliding material, and in the second case is itself an integral part of the landslide. In both cases, the damage to the infrastructure may be large and accompanied by significant losses of human life and recovery may be long and very expensive. Weather conditions, such as heavy rainfall, due to the increase of groundwater level and soil saturation are common triggers of landslides occurrence. It's expected that the climate changes in the coming decades cause a significant increase in precipitation, which will directly affect the increase in the number of active landslides. This paper provides an overview of the climate changes impact to the dangers caused by landslides. This work is the result of scientific research in the EU-CIRCLE project, financed through the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union.

Abstract The capacity of critical infrastructure is one of the main components for infrastructure resilience. By improving the capacity increased resilience, and reduce the risks and impacts. There are several dimensions of resilience that need to be taken into consideration when trying to achieve a holistic approach for infrastructure resilience. One of this components anyway are the resilience parameters: anticipation, absorption, coping, restoration and adaptation. These parameters correspond to the critical infrastructure capacities and are a possible way to quantifying these capacities, with appropriate measurable resilience indicators. This paper presenting a list and description of possible generic resilience indicators, that are the same for all type of hazard and all type of critical infrastructure. This work is the result of scientific research in the EU-CIRCLE project, that is financed through the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union.