Improving Homeland Security Decisions

doi:10.1017/9781316676714

What are the risks of terrorism and what are their consequences and economic impacts? Are we safer from terrorism today than before 9/11? Does the government spend our homeland security funds well? These questions motivated a twelve-year research program of the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California, funded by the Department of Homeland Security. This book showcases some of the most important results of this research and offers key insights on how to address the most important security problems of our time. Written for homeland security researchers and practitioners, this book covers a wide range of methodologies and real-world examples of how to reduce terrorism risks, increase the efficient use of homeland security resources, and thereby make better decisions overall.

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Page 1 of 2

First
« Prev
1
2
Next »
Last

Contents

Improving Homeland Security Decisions
pp i-ii
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Improving Homeland Security Decisions - Title page
pp iii-iii
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Copyright page
pp iv-iv
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Contents
pp v-viii
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Contributors
pp ix-xii
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

1 - Improving Homeland Security Decisions
pp 1-4
- By Ali E. Abbas, Milind Tambe, Detlof von Winterfeldt
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

2 - Probabilistic Risk Analysis and Terrorism Risk
pp 5-31
- By Barry Ezell, Steven P. Bennett, Detlof von Winterfeldt, John Sokolowski, Andrew J. Collins
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

3 - Integrating Stakeholder Values into Strategic Planning through Comparative Risk Analysis
pp 32-53
- By Henry H. Willis, Russell Lundberg
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

4 - Validating Terrorism Risk Assessment Models – Lessons Learned from 11 Models
pp 54-84
- By John Lathrop, Barry Ezell
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

5 - Coping with Uncertainty in Adversarial Risk Analysis
pp 85-110
- By Vicki Bier, Tony Cox
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

6 - A Risk and Economic Analysis of Dirty Bomb Attacks on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
pp 111-133
- By Heather Rosoff, Detlof von Winterfeldt
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

7 - Regional Transportation and Supply Chain Modeling for Large-Scale Emergencies
pp 134-157
- By Maged Dessouky, Fernando Ordóñez, Zhihong Shen, Hongzhong Jia
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

8 - Economic Consequences of Terrorism and Natural Disasters: The Computable General Equilibrium Approach
pp 158-192
- By Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Glyn Wittwer, Adam Rose, Nathaniel Heatwole
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

9 - Economic Resilience to Terrorism and Natural Hazards
pp 193-219
- By Adam Rose
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

10 - The Temporal Regional Economic Impacts of a Hurricane Disaster on Oil Refinery Operations: A FlexNIEMO Approach
pp 220-237
- By Jiyoung Park, Peter Gordon, Yunkyung Kim, James E. Moore, Harry W. Richardson
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

11 - Risk-Informed Benefit-Cost Analysis
pp 238-258
- By Scott Farrow
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

12 - Enhancing Post-disaster Economic Resilience: Public-Private Partnership for Insuring Terrorism
pp 259-276
- By Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

13 - Economic Impacts of Changes in Wait Times at U.S. Ports of Entry
pp 277-323
- By Bryan Roberts, Adam Rose, Nathaniel Heatwole, Dan Wei, Misak Avetisyan, Fynnwin Prager, Charles Baschnagel, Isaac Maya
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

14 - Organizational Decision Processes
pp 324-343
- By Gregory S. Parnell, Barry Ezell
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

15 - A Value Model for Evaluating Homeland Security Decisions
pp 344-375
- By Ralph L. Keeney, Detlof von Winterfeldt
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

16 - Identifying, Structuring, and Comparing the Objectives of Al Qaeda and ISIL
pp 376-395
- By Johannes Siebert, Greg Keeney
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

17 - Multi-objective Decision Making: Expected Utility vs. Some Widely Used (and Flawed) Methods
pp 396-426
- By Ali E. Abbas
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

18 - Achieving Multiple Objectives with Limited Resources: Using Utility Theory and Control Theory
pp 427-444
- By Ali E. Abbas, Dušan M. Stipanović
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

19 - Defender-Attacker Decision Tree Analysis to Combat Terrorism
pp 445-468
- By Ryan J. B. Garcia, Detlof von Winterfeldt
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

20 - Decision Making for Bioterror Preparedness: Examples from Smallpox Vaccination Policy
pp 469-484
- By Edward H. Kaplan, Lawrence M. Wein
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

21 - Stackelberg Security Games (SSG) Basics and Application Overview
pp 485-507
- By Bo An, Milind Tambe, Arunesh Sinha
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

22 - Basic Solution Concepts and Algorithms for Stackelberg Security Games
pp 508-537
- By Christopher Kiekintveld, Manish Jain
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

23 - Mixed-Integer Optimization Methods for Solving Stackelberg Security Games
pp 538-573
- By William Haskell, Fernando Ordóñez
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

24 - Methods for Addressing the Unpredictable Real-World Element in Security
pp 574-603
- By Jinshu Cui, Thanh H. Nguyen, James Pita, Richard S. John
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

25 - Learning to Play Stackelberg Security Games
pp 604-626
- By Avrim Blum, Nika Haghtalab, Ariel D. Procaccia
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Page 1 of 2

First
« Prev
1
2
Next »
Last

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Why this information is here

This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

Accessibility Information

Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.

Improving Homeland Security Decisions

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views

Accessibility standard: Unknown

Why this information is here

Accessibility Information