Seeds of disaster, roots of response
Subtitle: how private action can reduce public vulnerability
By: edited by Philip E. Auerswald ... [et al.].
Contributors: Auerswald, Philip E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780521857963; 9780521685726
Subjects: Emergency management.; Infrastructure (Economics) -- Security measures.; Public-private sector cooperation.; Crisis management.; Risk management.; Preparedness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-530) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Where private efficiency meets public vulnerability : the critical infrastructure challenge / Philip E. Auerswald ... [et al.]; title: A nation forewarned : vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the twenty-first century / Lewis M. Branscomb; title: The brittle superpower / Stephen E. Flynn; title: Critical infrastructure protection in the United States since 1993 / Brian Lopez; title: Evolution of vulnerability assessment methods / Brian Lopez; title: Managing for the unexpected : reliability and organizational resilience / Todd M. La Porte; title: Notes toward a theory of the management of vulnerability / Robert A. Frosch; title: Challenges of assuring high reliability when facing suicidal terrorism / Todd R. La Porte; title: Managing for reliability in an age of terrorism / Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe; title: Organizational strategies for complex system resilience, reliability, and adaptation / Todd M. La Porte; title: Complexity and interdependence : the unmanaged challenge / Philip E. Auerswald; title: ^Managing reliability in electric power companies / Jack Feinstein; title: Coordinated and uncoordinated crisis responses by the electric industry / Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe; title: Electricity : protecting essential services / Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, and Lester B. Lave; title: A cyber threat to national security? / Sean P. Gorman; title: Interdependent security in interconnected networks / Geoffrey Heal ... [et al.]; title: Insurance, the 14th critical sector / Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan; title: National security and private-sector risk management for terrorism / Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville; title: Terrorism, insurance, and preparedness : connecting the dots / James W. Macdonald; title: Looking beyond TRIA : a clinical examination of potential terrorism loss sharing / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan; title: Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources / Franklin W. Nutter; title: ^Private-public collaboration on a national and international scale / Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan; title: Information sharing with the private sector : history, challenges, innovation, and prospects / Daniel B. Prieto, III; title: Sharing the watch : public-private collaboration for infrastructure security / John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser; title: The paris initiative, "anthrax and beyond" : transnational collaboration among interdependent critical networks / Patrick Lagadec and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan; title: Leadership : who will act? Integrating public and private interests to make a safer world / Philip E. Auerswald ... [et al.].