Seeds of disaster, roots of response : how private action can reduce public vulnerability / edited by Philip E. Auerswald ... [et al.].

Contributor(s):

Auerswald, Philip E

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: xxii, 554 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

0521685729 (pbk.)
9780521685726 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

363.3460973 SEE 23 001100

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Table of contents

Contents:

Contents: Where private efficiency meets public vulnerability : the challenge of sustaining critical infrastructure / Philip Auerswald ... [et al.] A nation forewarned : vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the twenty-first century / Lewis M. Branscomb The brittle superpower / Stephen E. Flynn Critical infrastructure protection in the United States since 1993 / Brian Lopez Evolution of vulnerability assessment methods / Brian Lopez Managing for the unexpected : reliability and organizational resilience / Todd M. La Porte Notes toward a theory of the management of vulnerability / Robert A. Frosch Challenges of assuring high reliability when facing suicidal terrorism / Todd R. La Porte Managing for reliability in an age of terrorism / Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe Organizational strategies for complex system resilience, reliability, and adaptation / Todd M. La Porte Complexity and interdependence : the unmanaged challenge / Philip Auerswald Managing reliability in electric power companies / Jack Feinstein Coordinated and uncoordinated crisis responses by the electric industry / Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe Electricity : protecting essential services / Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, and Lester B. Lave A cyber threat to national security? / Sean P. Gorman Interdependent security in interconnected networks / Geoffrey Heal ... [et al.] Insurance, the 14th critical sector / Erwann Michel-Kerjan Private risk management for terrorist attacks / Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville Terrorism, insurance, and preparedness : connecting the dots / James W. Macdonald Looking beyond tria : a clinical examination of potential terrorism loss sharing / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources / Franklin W. Nutter Building trust : private-public collaboration on a national and international scale / Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann Michel-Kerjan Information sharing with the private sector : history, challenges, innovation, and prospects / Daniel B. Prieto Sharing thewatch : public private collaboration for infrastructure security / John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser The paris initiative, "anthrax and beyond" : transnational collaboration among interdependent critical networks / Patrick Lagadec and Erwann Michel-Kerjan Leadership : whowill act? / Philip Auerswald ... [et al.]

Summary: This book on critical infrastructure protection describes effective and sustainable approaches - both business strategies and public policies - to ensure provision of critical services in the event of disaster.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-530) and indexes.

Contents: Where private efficiency meets public vulnerability : the challenge of sustaining critical infrastructure / Philip Auerswald ... [et al.]
A nation forewarned : vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the twenty-first century / Lewis M. Branscomb
The brittle superpower / Stephen E. Flynn
Critical infrastructure protection in the United States since 1993 / Brian Lopez
Evolution of vulnerability assessment methods / Brian Lopez
Managing for the unexpected : reliability and organizational resilience / Todd M. La Porte
Notes toward a theory of the management of vulnerability / Robert A. Frosch
Challenges of assuring high reliability when facing suicidal terrorism / Todd R. La Porte
Managing for reliability in an age of terrorism / Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe
Organizational strategies for complex system resilience, reliability, and adaptation / Todd M. La Porte
Complexity and interdependence : the unmanaged challenge / Philip Auerswald
Managing reliability in electric power companies / Jack Feinstein
Coordinated and uncoordinated crisis responses by the electric industry / Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe
Electricity : protecting essential services / Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, and Lester B. Lave
A cyber threat to national security? / Sean P. Gorman
Interdependent security in interconnected networks / Geoffrey Heal ... [et al.]
Insurance, the 14th critical sector / Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Private risk management for terrorist attacks / Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville
Terrorism, insurance, and preparedness : connecting the dots / James W. Macdonald
Looking beyond tria : a clinical examination of potential terrorism loss sharing / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources / Franklin W. Nutter
Building trust : private-public collaboration on a national and international scale / Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Information sharing with the private sector : history, challenges, innovation, and prospects / Daniel B. Prieto
Sharing thewatch : public
private collaboration for infrastructure security / John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser
The paris initiative, "anthrax and beyond" : transnational collaboration among interdependent critical networks / Patrick Lagadec and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Leadership : whowill act? / Philip Auerswald ... [et al.]

This book on critical infrastructure protection describes effective and sustainable approaches - both business strategies and public policies - to ensure provision of critical services in the event of disaster.

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