John Mueller, Mark G Stewart

Terrorism, Security, and Money

Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security

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Produktbeschreibung

In Terrorism, Security, and Money, John Mueller, one of America's most trenchant critics of America's drive for enhanced security at all costs, teams up with Mark Stewart, a civil engineering professor and recognized authority on risk assessment for the built infrastructure, to put forth a more rational and cost-effective approach to managing domestic security. Instead of offering a critical account of the situation we're in, Mueller and Stewart instead focus on providing solutions based on the risk assessment science. After cataloguing the mistakes that the US has made (and continues to make), like spending wildly on ill-considered plans to mitigate unlikely threats, they offer tools-based probabilistic risk assessment that have the potential to redirect our efforts toward a more productive--and far more cost-effective--course.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780199795765
• ISBN-10: 0199795762
• Artikelnr.: 33722353

Autorenporträt

John Mueller is Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Atomic Obsession (OUP 2009). Mark Stewart is Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at the University of Newcastle in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Assessing Risk
Chapter 2: Terrorism as a Hazard to Human Life
Chapter 3: The Full Costs of Terrorism
Chapter 4: Evaluating Homeland Security Spending
Chapter 5: Protecting the Homeland: Some Parameters
Chapter 6: Homeland Protection: Infrastructure
Chapter 7: Protecting the Airlines
Chapter 8: Assessing Policing, Mitigation, Resilience
Chapter 9: Conclusions and Political Realities
Appendix: The Risk Assessment Process