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

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Emergency management.

Infrastructure (Economics) -- Security measures.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Crisis management.

Risk management.

Preparedness.

1. Where private efficiency meets public vulnerability: the critical infrastructure challenge / Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte, and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

2. A nation forewarned: vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the twenty-first century / Lewis M. Branscomb

3. The brittle superpower / Stephen E. Flynn

4. Critical infrastructure protection in the United States since 1993 / Brian Lopez

5. Evolution of vulnerability assessment methods / Brian Lopez

6. Managing for the unexpected: reliability and organizational resilience / Todd M. La Porte

7. Notes toward a theory of the management of vulnerability / Robert A. Frosch

8. Challenges of assuring high reliability when facing suicidal terrorism / Todd R. La Porte

9. Managing for reliability in an age of terrorism / Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe

10. Organizational strategies for complex system resilience, reliability, and adaptation / Todd M. La Porte

11. Complexity and interdependence: the unmanaged challenge / Philip E. Auerswald

12. Managing reliability in electric power companies / Jack Feinstein

13. Coordinated and uncoordinated crisis responses by the electric industry / Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe

14. Electricity: protecting essential services / Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, and Lester B. Lave

15. A cyber threat to national security? / Sean P. Gorman

16. Interdependent security in interconnected networks / Geoffrey Heal ...[et al]

17. Insurance, the 14th critical sector / Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

18. National security and private sector risk management for terrorism / Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville

19. Terrorism, insurance, and prepaaredness: connecting the dots / James W. Macdonald

20. Looking beyond TRIA: a clinical examination of potential terrorism loss sharing / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

21. Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources / Franklin W. Nutter

22. Public-private collaboration on a national and international scale / Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

23. Information sharing with the private sector: history, challenges, innovation, and prospects / Daniel B. Prieto III

24. Sharing the watch: public-private collaboration for infrastructure security / John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser

25. The Paris initiative, anthrax and beyond: transnational collaboration among interdependent critical networks / Patrick Lagadec and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

26. Leadership: who will act? Integrating public and private interests to make a safer world / Philip E. Auerswald.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521685726

xxii, 554 p. ; 24 cm