Ebook: Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security

At the beginning of each year, there is a deluge of top-10 lists on just about every subject you can imagine. A top-10 list of biggest news stories, best-selling books, most popular music and movies, richest companies, and best places to visit or live. It seems everyone has his or her own top-10 list, reflecting, perhaps, differences in regional, national, and cultural values. Companies and governments most often tend to focus their top-10 lists on economic priorities, or priorities related to national defense, security, public health, and new infrastructure. This year, 2007, was no exception. Yet, increasingly, we see governments, private organizations, and companies advocating a new type of prioritization. The complexity of societal change requires an enhanced capacity for scientific assessment, monitoring, and emer gency response. New uncertain and multifaceted risks and stressors as well as globalization and public pressure for decision transparency drive the need for a new framework for thinking about prioritization. This framework needs to reach beyond the realms of economics, world trade, and corporate management to include the environment, stakeholders, public preferences, and social goals. Moreover, corporations and individuals are not only interested in generic 10-best lists; they want lists tailored to their values, goals, and current economic and social state. For example, the U. S.

The increasing complexity of societal change brought about by the new global economy requires an enhanced capacity for scientific assessment and monitoring, particularly of critical infrastructure such as ports and harbors. Public pressure for decision transparency in government and corporations drives the need for a new framework for thinking about globalization and the prioritization of social and corporate values that reaches beyond the realms of economics, world trade, and corporate management to include environmental protection and social goals. Establishing, maintaining, and enhancing a sense of security and vulnerability in areas around critical infrastructure will require: matching human demands with available resources; recognizing threats, including environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and identifying the range of available options for preventing and minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and terror actions.

This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and de

The increasing complexity of societal change brought about by the new global economy requires an enhanced capacity for scientific assessment and monitoring, particularly of critical infrastructure such as ports and harbors. Public pressure for decision transparency in government and corporations drives the need for a new framework for thinking about globalization and the prioritization of social and corporate values that reaches beyond the realms of economics, world trade, and corporate management to include environmental protection and social goals. Establishing, maintaining, and enhancing a sense of security and vulnerability in areas around critical infrastructure will require: matching human demands with available resources; recognizing threats, including environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and identifying the range of available options for preventing and minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and terror actions.

This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and de
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 2-2
Understanding Environmental Security At Ports And Harbors....Pages 3-15
A Brief Analysis Of Threats And Vulnerabilities In The Maritime Domain....Pages 17-49
Environmental And Human Security In The Mediterranean....Pages 51-61
Front Matter....Pages 64-64
Protection of Hazardous Installations and Critical Infrastructures - Complementarity of Safety and Security Approaches....Pages 65-78
Applying Risk Assessment To Secure The Containerized Supply Chain....Pages 79-95
Transportation Of Dangerous Goods....Pages 97-110
Lifeline Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment....Pages 111-132
A Network Security Architecture Using The Zachman Framework....Pages 133-143
Front Matter....Pages 146-146
Conceptual Frameworks To Balance Ecosystem And Security Goals....Pages 147-173
Invasive Species....Pages 175-188
Evaluating Risks From Contaminated Sediments at Industrial Ports and Harbors....Pages 189-205
Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms....Pages 207-242
Front Matter....Pages 244-244
Decision Analysis Tools for Safety, Security, and Sustainability Of Ports and Harbors....Pages 245-260
A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach for Prioritization of Performance Metrics....Pages 261-298
Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis For Port Environmental Security Investments....Pages 299-307
Applying Game Theory to Balance Risk and Cost for Security Inspection Systems....Pages 309-326
Complex Secure Solutions for Sustainable Practices in Armenia....Pages 327-338
Global Changes, New Risks, And Novel Methods And Tools Of Their Assessment....Pages 339-351
Collaborative Public-Private Risk Assessment In Vessel Traffic Safety....Pages 353-367
Decision Evaluation for Complex Risk Networked Systems Development Progress....Pages 369-391
Front Matter....Pages 394-394
A Model for Optimal Industrial Wastewater Treatment as a Tool for Managing Port Environmental Security and Sustainability....Pages 395-399
The Safe Operation Of Constantza Port During Winter....Pages 401-409
Environmental Health In Port And Harbor Areas....Pages 411-422
Environmental Security In Urban Areas....Pages 423-434
Potential Risk And Control Of Contamination In The Gulf Of Aqaba-Jordan....Pages 435-444
Sustainability And Vulnerability Analysis Of Critical Underground Infrastructure....Pages 445-469
Application Of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (Riam) Method For Waste Disposal Site....Pages 471-481
Back Matter....Pages 483-488

The increasing complexity of societal change brought about by the new global economy requires an enhanced capacity for scientific assessment and monitoring, particularly of critical infrastructure such as ports and harbors. Public pressure for decision transparency in government and corporations drives the need for a new framework for thinking about globalization and the prioritization of social and corporate values that reaches beyond the realms of economics, world trade, and corporate management to include environmental protection and social goals. Establishing, maintaining, and enhancing a sense of security and vulnerability in areas around critical infrastructure will require: matching human demands with available resources; recognizing threats, including environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and identifying the range of available options for preventing and minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and terror actions.

This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and de
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 2-2
Understanding Environmental Security At Ports And Harbors....Pages 3-15
A Brief Analysis Of Threats And Vulnerabilities In The Maritime Domain....Pages 17-49
Environmental And Human Security In The Mediterranean....Pages 51-61
Front Matter....Pages 64-64
Protection of Hazardous Installations and Critical Infrastructures - Complementarity of Safety and Security Approaches....Pages 65-78
Applying Risk Assessment To Secure The Containerized Supply Chain....Pages 79-95
Transportation Of Dangerous Goods....Pages 97-110
Lifeline Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment....Pages 111-132
A Network Security Architecture Using The Zachman Framework....Pages 133-143
Front Matter....Pages 146-146
Conceptual Frameworks To Balance Ecosystem And Security Goals....Pages 147-173
Invasive Species....Pages 175-188
Evaluating Risks From Contaminated Sediments at Industrial Ports and Harbors....Pages 189-205
Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms....Pages 207-242
Front Matter....Pages 244-244
Decision Analysis Tools for Safety, Security, and Sustainability Of Ports and Harbors....Pages 245-260
A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach for Prioritization of Performance Metrics....Pages 261-298
Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis For Port Environmental Security Investments....Pages 299-307
Applying Game Theory to Balance Risk and Cost for Security Inspection Systems....Pages 309-326
Complex Secure Solutions for Sustainable Practices in Armenia....Pages 327-338
Global Changes, New Risks, And Novel Methods And Tools Of Their Assessment....Pages 339-351
Collaborative Public-Private Risk Assessment In Vessel Traffic Safety....Pages 353-367
Decision Evaluation for Complex Risk Networked Systems Development Progress....Pages 369-391
Front Matter....Pages 394-394
A Model for Optimal Industrial Wastewater Treatment as a Tool for Managing Port Environmental Security and Sustainability....Pages 395-399
The Safe Operation Of Constantza Port During Winter....Pages 401-409
Environmental Health In Port And Harbor Areas....Pages 411-422
Environmental Security In Urban Areas....Pages 423-434
Potential Risk And Control Of Contamination In The Gulf Of Aqaba-Jordan....Pages 435-444
Sustainability And Vulnerability Analysis Of Critical Underground Infrastructure....Pages 445-469
Application Of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (Riam) Method For Waste Disposal Site....Pages 471-481
Back Matter....Pages 483-488
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