Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security) : Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security

Igor Linkov

ISBN 10: 1402063830 / ISBN 13: 9781402063831

Published by Springer-Verlag Gmbh, 2007

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Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - This book offers a state-of-the-science approach to current environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities. It 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 decision-making tools such as risk assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security) : Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Gmbh
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402063830
• ISBN 13: 9781402063831
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 244W x 165H x 37D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 165 millimeters height by 37 millimeters depth
• Weight: 905 grams

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Synopsis

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.