Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability » (1ST)

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 DelftUniversity 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.

Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to understand how private decisions affect public vulnerability.

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 andHoward 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.