Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks

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.

Overview of Critical Infrastructure and Environmental Security.- Understanding Environmental Security At Ports And Harbors.- A Brief Analysis Of Threats And Vulnerabilities In The Maritime Domain.- Environmental And Human Security In The Mediterranean.- Port Critical Infrastructure and Management Frameworks.- Protection of Hazardous Installations and Critical Infrastructures - Complementarity of Safety and Security Approaches.- Applying Risk Assessment To Secure The Containerized Supply Chain.- Transportation Of Dangerous Goods.- Lifeline Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment.- A Network Security Architecture Using The Zachman Framework.- Ecological Risks in Harbors and Coastal Areas.- Conceptual Frameworks To Balance Ecosystem And Security Goals.- Invasive Species.- Evaluating Risks From Contaminated Sediments at Industrial Ports and Harbors.- Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms.- Decision-Making and Risk Assessment Methods, Tools, and Applications for Critical Infrastructure and Port Security.- Decision Analysis Tools for Safety, Security, and Sustainability Of Ports and Harbors.- A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach for Prioritization of Performance Metrics.- Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis For Port Environmental Security Investments.- Applying Game Theory to Balance Risk and Cost for Security Inspection Systems.- Complex Secure Solutions for Sustainable Practices in Armenia.- Global Changes, New Risks, And Novel Methods And Tools Of Their Assessment.- Collaborative Public-Private Risk Assessment In Vessel Traffic Safety.- Decision Evaluation for Complex Risk Networked Systems Development Progress.- Case Studies in Risk Management.- A Model for Optimal Industrial Wastewater Treatment as a Tool for Managing Port Environmental Security and Sustainability.- The Safe OperationOf Constantza Port During Winter.- Environmental Health In Port And Harbor Areas.- Environmental Security In Urban Areas.- Potential Risk And Control Of Contamination In The Gulf Of Aqaba-Jordan.- Sustainability And Vulnerability Analysis Of Critical Underground Infrastructure.- Application Of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (Riam) Method For Waste Disposal Site.