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

Material type: Computer fileComputer filePublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: xxii, 554 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0521685729 (pbk.)
  • 0521857961 (hardback)
  • 9780521685726 (pbk.)
  • 9780521857963 (hardback)
DDC classification:
  • 363.34/60973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV551.2 .S44 2006
Online resources:
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.]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.]

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