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What People are saying about Seeds of Disaster,
Roots of Response:

"With 85% of America's critical infrastructure in private hands, the American people - and America's economy - are not going to be safe without strong, collaborative action by the public and private sector.

Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is thus a timely and important volume that is a must-read for anyone concerned about our nation's security."

LEE HAMILTON, President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Vice Chair, 9/11 Commission

"This visionary book reveals the vulnerability of our systems which provide the framework for humanity to exist. The response to this millennium challenge can only be found in our capacity to demonstrate innovative collaboration, effective leadership, and courage. I strongly urge top decision makers to read this book; it provides the necessary guidance to go from words to action."

KLAUS SCHWAB, Founder and Chairman, World Economic Forum

"Industries that provide critical infrastructure are becoming more efficient, but more vulnerable.

This book introduces security externalities, a phenomenon that inhibits private investments that would make critical infrastructure services more resilient to potential disaster from any source. It calls not only for more leadership but for more realistic policies from both the private and the public sector."

THOMAS C. SCHELLING, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics

"This important book calls for a public-private national infrastructure protection plan to replace the current disorganized and dysfunctional response to catastrophic threats from terrorism, natural disasters, and gargantuan operational errors. It asks the hard questions about how government and business can define and finance respective roles and stop the Alphonse-and-Gaston routine that makes disasters even more disastrous."

BEN W. HEINEMAN, JR., Senior Fellow at Harvard's Law School and Kennedy School of Government, Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, General Electric

"America must work hard to improve its responses to natural disasters and terror attacks.  This book demonstrates that effective coordination with the operators of privately owned critical infrastructure is a vital part of that work, and offers guidance for progress."

U.S. Senator SUSAN M. COLLINS of Maine, Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate

Editors:

Philip Auerswald
Lewis M. Branscomb
Todd M. La Porte
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

Contributing authors:

Jay Apt
Thomas Bowe
Lloyd Dixon
John Donahue
Jack Feinstein
Stephen Flynn
Robert A. Frosch
Sean Gorman
Geoffrey Heal
Michael Kearns
Paul Kleindorfer
Michael Kormos
Howard Kunreuther
Todd R. La Porte
Patrick Lagadec
Lester Lave
Brian Lopez
James Macdonald
Robert T. Marsh
Granger Morgan
Franklin Nutter
Daniel Prieto
Robert Reville
Emery Roe
Paul R. Schulman
Richard Zeckhauser

Last updated: September 28, 2006