Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response (eBook, PDF)

How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability
Redaktion: Auerswald, Philip E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the wake of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are increasingly motivated to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on 'critical infrastructure protection' has focused on the responsibilities and actions of government rather than on those of the private sector firms that provide most vital services. Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to understand how private decisions and operations affect public vulnerability. It describes effective and sustainable approaches - both business strategies and public policies - to ensure provision of critical services in the event of disaster. The authors are business leaders from multiple industries and are experts in risk analysis, economics, engineering, organization theory and public policy. The book shows the necessity of deeply rooted collaboration between private and public institutions, and the accountability and leadership required to progress from words to action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511247828
• Artikelnr.: 38190729

Autorenporträt

Philip E. Auerswald, PhD (editor) is Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. Professor Auerswald's work focuses on linked processes of technological and organizational change in the contexts of policy, economics, and strategy. He is the founding co-editor of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about people using technology to address global challenges. He was previously a Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His published work has addressed entrepreneurial finance, organizational learning, industry dynamics, and innovation policy. He has been a consultant for the National Academies of Science, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Washington and a BA (political science) from Yale University.
Lewis M. Branscomb, PhD is Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, emeritus, at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He also holds faculty appointments at the University of California San Diego. Branscomb was the co-chairman of the project of the National Academies of Science and of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, which authored the 2002 report Making the Nation Safer: Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism.
Todd M. La Porte, PhD is an associate professor at George Mason University. He was a member of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He also served for six years as an analyst in the information technology and the international security programs at the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a research office of the U.S. Congress.
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, PhD is Managing Director of the Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His work focuses on financing extreme events, with a prime interest in the creation and implementation of private-public collaboration among top decision makers of organizations, or countries, in America and in Europe. He is a member of the Global Risk Network of the World Economic Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword General Robert T. Marsh; Part I. Seeds of Disaster: 1. Where
private efficiency meets public vulnerability: the critical infrastructure
challenge Philip Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte and Erwann
Michel-Kerjan; Part II. A Critical Challenge: 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; Part III.
Managing Organizations: 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 M. 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; Part IV. Securing Networks:
11. Complexity and interdependence: the unmanaged challenge Philip
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, Michael
Kearns, Paul Kleindorfer and Howard Kunreuther; Part V. Creating Markets:
17. Insurance, the 14th critical sector Erwann Michel-Kerjan; 18. Private
risk management for terrorist attacks Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville; 19.
Terrorism, insurance, and preparedness: connecting the dots James W.
Macdonald; 20. Looking beyond TRIA: a clinical examination of potential
terrorism loss sharing Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan; 21.
Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources
Franklin W. Nutter; Part VI. Building Trust: 22. Private-public
collaboration on a national and international scale Lewis M. Branscomb and
Erwann Michel-Kerjan; 23. Information sharing with the private sector:
history, challenges, innovation, and prospects Daniel B. Prieto; 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 Michel-Kerjan; Part VII. Roots
of Response: 26. Leadership: who will act? Philip Auerswald, Lewis M.
Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte and Erwann Michel-Kerjan.