Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses

✍ Scribed by Peter Katona (editor), John P. Sullivan (editor), Michael D. Intriligator (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Series: Contemporary Security Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic disease preparedness and remediation, agroterroism, food safety, and environmental issues, the contributors demonstrate that to counter terrorism of any kind, a global, networked, and multidisciplinary approach is essential. To be successful in biosecurity, this book argues it is necessary to extend partnerships, cooperation, and co-ordination between public health, clinical medicine, private business, law enforcement and other agencies locally, nationally and internationally. Internationally, a clear understanding is needed of what has happened in past epidemics and what was accomplished in past bioprograms (in Britain, South Africa, Russia, for example). This book also assesses how, with the right technology and motivation, both a state and a non-state actor could initiate an extremely credible biothreat to security at both local and national levels.

This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and practitioners of security studies, public health, public policy and IR in general.

Peter Katona is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Infectious Diseases. He is co-founder of Biological Threat Mitigation, a bioterror consulting firm.

John P. Sullivan is a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. He is also a researcher focusing on terrorism, conflict disaster, intelligence studies, and urban operations. He is co-founder of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group.

Michael D. Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also Professor of Political Science, Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, and Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences, all at UCLA.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
About the authors
Preface
The U.S. Offensive Biological Warfare Program, 1943–1969
Introduction: Global biosecurity and the spectrum of infectious disease threats: a networked global approach
Part I Assessing the threats of natural and deliberate epidemics
1 Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
2 Biological warfare and bioterrorism: How do they differ from other WMD threats?
3 The history of bioterrorism, biowarfare, and biocrimes
4 Food and agricultural biosecurity
5 The economic, political, and social impacts of bioterrorism
6 Technology and the global proliferation of dual- use biotechnologies
7 A catastrophic climate: Conflict and environmental security setting the stage for humanitarian crises
Part II Gaps and weaknesses in current public health preparedness and response systems
8 Different perceptions, similar reactions: Biopreparedness in the European Union
9 Emerging roles of reserve forces: National Guard roles and mission in domestic biopreparedness
10 Mitigating crisis through communication
Part III Integrated approaches to infectious disease preparedness and response
11a Bioterrorism surveillance
11b The role of informal information sources as an adjunct to routine disease surveillance
12 A public health model for WMD threat assessment: Connecting the bioterrorism dots on the local level
13 Integrating local, state, and federal responses to infectious threats and other challenges facing local public health departments
14 Vulnerable populations in disaster planning: Children are different
15 Developing a new paradigm for biodefense in the twenty-first century: Adapting our healthcare response to the biodisaster threat
16 Enhancing the role of private industry in biosecurity
17 Towards a global ius pestilentiae: The functions of law in global biosecurity
Conclusion
Afterword: Bureaucracy vs. bioterror: the losing race
Index