2nd Edition
Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience A Policy Perspective
This second edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience continues to be an essential resource for understanding and protecting critical infrastructure across the U.S. Revised and thoroughly updated throughout, the textbook reflects and addresses the many changes that have occurred in critical infrastructure protection and risk management since the publication of the first edition. This new edition retains the book’s focus on understudied topics, while also continuing its unique, policy-based approach to topics, ensuring that material is presented in a neutral and unbiased manner. An accessible and up-to-date text, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience is a key textbook for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses across Homeland Security, Critical Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Public Administration.
Biography
Kelley A. Pesch-Cronin is a Professor at Notre Dame College of Ohio, USA. Her research interests include homeland security and emergency management issues, especially as they pertain to policy and politics. Previously, she worked in municipal government and local law enforcement and has co-authored several books in the field.
Nancy E. Marion is a Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, USA. Her research areas largely revolve around the intersection of politics and criminal justice. She is the author of numerous articles and books that examine how politics affects criminal justice policy.
This completely revised edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience brings a welcome update to the issues confronting today’s Homeland Security Enterprise. These include the latest policies, increasing threats regarding cybersecurity and the creation of new agencies such as CISA. Emerging threats including artificial intelligence are also discussed. This is an essential book both for security professionals and students.
Dr. Gregory Moore, Director, Center for Intelligence & Security Studies, Notre Dame College
As the threat landscape continues to rapidly evolve, staying versed in emerging concerns for critical infrastructure and the latest risk management strategies to address them is of the utmost importance. The second edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience enables students and practitioners to keep pace with these changes by offering valuable insight into evolving concepts like Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and FEMA’s Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) process. This updated edition is a must-read for anyone with an interest in critical infrastructure protection.
Mark Christie, CEM, former President of the Emergency Management Association of Ohio
