Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response

How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability

"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

Cambridge University Press 2006, ($29.95, paperback; $59.99, hardcover)
506 pages, September 11, 2006; ISBN 0131435264

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List of Contributors		page ix
Foreword, by General Robert T. Marsh		xi
Preface		xvii
Acknowledgments		xxi
I. SEEDS OF DISASTER
1	Where Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge	3
	Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte, and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
II. A CRITICAL CHALLENGE
2	A Nation Forewarned: Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure in the Twenty-First Century	19
	Lewis M. Branscomb
3	The Brittle Superpower	26
	Stephen E. Flynn
4	Critical Infrastructure Protection in the United States Since 1993	37
	Brian Lopez
5	Evolution of Vulnerability Assessment Methods	51
	Brian Lopez
III. MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
6	Managing for the Unexpected: Reliability and Organizational Resilience	71
	Todd M. La Porte
7	Notes Toward a Theory of the Management of Vulnerability	77
	Robert A. Frosch
8	Challenges of Assuring High Reliability When Facing Suicidal Terrorism	99
	Todd R. La Porte
9	Managing for Reliability in an Age of Terrorism	121
	Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe
10	Organizational Strategies for Complex System Resilience, Reliability, and Adaptation	135
	Todd M. La Porte
IV. SECURING NETWORKS
11	Complexity and Interdependence: The Unmanaged Challenge	157
	Philip E. Auerswald
12	Managing Reliability in Electric Power Companies	164
	Jack Feinstein
13	Coordinated and Uncoordinated Crisis Responses by the Electric Industry	194
	Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe
14	Electricity: Protecting Essential Services	211
	Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, and Lester B. Lave
15	A Cyber Threat to National Security?	239
	Sean P. Gorman
16	Interdependent Security in Interconnected Networks	258
	Geoffrey Heal, Michael Kearns, Paul Kleindorfer, and Howard Kunreuther
V. CREATING MARKETS
17	Insurance, the 14th Critical Sector	279
	Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
18	National Security and Private-Sector Risk Management for Terrorism	292
	Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville
19	Terrorism, Insurance, and Preparedness: Connecting the Dots	305
	James W. Macdonald
20	Looking Beyond TRIA: A Clinical Examination of Potential Terrorism Loss Sharing	338
	Howard Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
21	Financing Catastrophe Risk with Public and Private (Re)insurance Resources	379
	Franklin W. Nutter
VI. BUILDING TRUST
22	Public-Private Collaboration on a National and International Scale	395
	Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
23	Information Sharing with the Private Sector: History, Challenges, Innovation, and Prospects	404
	Daniel B. Prieto III
24	Sharing the Watch: Public-Private Collaboration for Infrastructure Security	429
	John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser
25	The Paris Initiative, "Anthrax and Beyond": Transnational Collaboration Among Interdependent Critical Networks	457
	Patrick Lagadec and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
VII. ROOTS OF RESPONSE
26	Leadership: Who Will Act? Integrating Public and Private Interests to Make a Safer World	483
	Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte, and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
References		507
Contributors		531
Author Index		547
Subject Index		548

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

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