Center for Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security

Animal Diseases and their Threat to Food and Food Security

Garrett Milne, Carleton University Animal diseases threaten the lives of millions of livestock on a daily basis. These animals are relied upon in the food […]

Enhancing Food-System Resilience and Ensuring Consumer Confidence in the Aftermath of a Food-Supply Catastrophe

D.A. Unruh, S.E. Gragg, A.L. Nutsch, J.M. Ackleson and J.J. Kastner Kansas State University Introduction If true security is achieved through “the reduction of terrorism […]

Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Liability Protection for Anti-terrorism Technologies from the Department of Homeland Security

David A. McWhorter, PhDFounder, The Homeland Security Consulting Group If your company offers a product or service (including cyber) that in some way could counter […]

From the Director – Summer 2017

Greetings to our community of CIP Report readers from the Center for Infrastructure Protection (CIP). The focus of this issue is the 2017 Frontiers in […]

Empowering Resilience in Energy and Water Systems: Addressing Barriers to Implementation of Urban Hydroelectric Micro-turbines

Jennifer F. Sklarew, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for Energy Policy, Center for Energy Science and Policy, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University Dann […]

Optimizing Mass Transit Transportation Resilience: Model, Implementation and Policy Directions

By Fadi A. Karaa, PhD Director, Critical Infrastructure Systems Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology Transportation Role in Community and Societal Resilience A disruption in […]

Safeguarding the Resilience of Power and Transportation Infrastructures during Transitions to Sustainability

Elisabeth Graffy, Arizona State University Lucia Gauchia, Michigan Technological University Winslow Burleson, New York University Elizabeth Chalecki, University of Nebraska-Omaha Jacqueline Tidwell, Arizona State University […]

Economics of Resilience: What Keeps Me Up at Night

Vanessa N. Vargas, Sandia National Laboratories Resilience has recently emerged as a national and homeland security priority, with several efforts in progress at the local […]

A Human-Centered Approach to the Prioritization of Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Susan Spierre Clark, RENEW Institute, University at Buffalo Thomas P. Seager, School for Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University Introduction The current […]

Integrated Risk Communication and Its Vital Role in Building Resilience in Transportation Systems

Andrea Stone, InfraGardNCR Summary Transportation operators and modes must bring together their safety, security, and emergency management functions to enable the use of a common […]