Seeds of disaster, roots of response : how private action can reduce public vulnerability / edited by Philip E. Auerswald ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-530) and indexes.

Where private efficiency meets public vulnerability : the critical infrastructure challenge / Philip E. Auerswald ... [and others] -- A nation forewarned : vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the twenty-first century / Lewis M. Branscomb -- The brittle superpower / Stephen E. Flynn -- Critical infrastructure protection in the United States since 1993 / Brian Lopez -- Evolution of vulnerability assessment methods / Brian Lopez -- Managing for the unexpected : reliability and organizational resilience / Todd M. La Porte -- Notes toward a theory of the management of vulnerability / Robert A. Frosch -- Challenges of assuring high reliability when facing suicidal terrorism / Todd R. La Porte -- Managing for reliability in an age of terrorism / Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe -- Organizational strategies for complex system resilience, reliability, and adaptation / Todd M. La Porte -- Complexity and interdependence : the unmanaged challenge / Philip E. Auerswald -- Managing reliability in electric power companies / Jack Feinstein -- Coordinated and uncoordinated crisis responses by the electric industry / Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe -- Electricity : protecting essential services / Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan, and Lester B. Lave -- A cyber threat to national security? / Sean P. Gorman -- Interdependent security in interconnected networks / Geoffrey Heal ... [and others] -- Insurance, the 14th critical sector / Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan -- National security and private-sector risk management for terrorism / Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville -- Terrorism, insurance, and preparedness : connecting the dots / James W. Macdonald -- Looking beyond TRIA : a clinical examination of potential terrorism loss sharing / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan -- Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources / Franklin W. Nutter -- Private-public collaboration on a national and international scale / Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan -- Information sharing with the private sector : history, challenges, innovation, and prospects / Daniel B. Prieto, III -- Sharing the watch : public-private collaboration for infrastructure security / John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser -- The paris initiative, "anthrax and beyond" : transnational collaboration among interdependent critical networks / Patrick Lagadec and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan -- Leadership : who will act? Integrating public and private interests to make a safer world / Philip E. Auerswald ... [and others].