Trusselslandskabet

Trusselslandskabet (Danish for "the threat landscape") is a conceptual framework used to describe and analyse the range of threats affecting a system, community, sector or territory. Employed in fields such as national security, cyber security, emergency management and environmental planning, the term brings together actors, threat vectors, vulnerabilities and potential impacts into a single analytical picture.

As an analytical tool, trusselslandskabet helps policymakers and practitioners map current and emerging risks, identify critical dependencies, and prioritise mitigation and resilience measures. Typical components include threat actors (state, non-state, natural), means or vectors (technical, biological, climatic), exposed assets (infrastructure, populations, ecosystems) and potential consequences (disruption, loss, cascading effects). Scenario-building and horizon-scanning are common methods for exploring changes in the trusselslandskabet over time.

The concept is used in strategic documents, risk assessments and training exercises, and has been applied at scales from local emergency planning to national security strategies. It is valued for promoting an integrated, cross-sectoral perspective, but also critiqued for potentially encouraging securitisation of social or environmental issues and for being applied too broadly without clear metrics. Ongoing discussion focuses on improving interoperability between sectors, incorporating societal resilience and equity considerations, and developing clearer indicators for tracking changes in the trusselslandskabet.