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Author Doro-on, Anna

Title Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure Safety and Security
Published Hoboken : CRC Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (426 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Acts of Terrorism and the Biological, Chemical, and Radiological Weapons Used against Water Infrastructure; Chapter 3: Explosives Used Against Water Infrastructure; Chapter 4: Water Infrastructure; Chapter 6: Introduction to Risk and Vulnerability Assessment; Chapter 7: Standard Risk and Vulnerability Assessment; Chapter 8: Quantitative Risk Estimation Model; Chapter 9: Cumulative Prospect Theory and Risk Acceptability
Chapter 10: Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Preventive MeasuresChapter 11: Strategic Intelligence Analysis for Water Infrastructure Terrorism Prevention; Back Cover
Summary One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from the threat of terrorism, including possible revenge by Al Qaeda over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Recognizing and identifying prospective events of terrorism against the water infrastructure is critical to the protection of the nation, as the consequences triggered by a terrorist attack on the water supply would be devastating. Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure: Safety and Security provides a unique quantitative risk assessment methodology
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Subject Water-supply -- Risk assessment -- United States
Water-supply -- United States -- Safety measures
Bioterrorism -- United States
Health risk assessment -- United States
Bioterrorism
Health risk assessment
Water-supply -- Safety measures
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781439853429
1439853428