Estimating Terrorism Risk

Abstract

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for protecting the United States from terrorism through prevention, preparedness, and response. In part, this goal is achieved through allocation of resources to states and urban areas. The Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) is a DHS grant program designed to enhance security and overall preparedness by addressing unique planning, equipment, training, and exercise needs of large urban areas (DHS, 2004). Although there appears to be agreement among many stakeholders that these allocations should reflect the magnitude of risks to which different areas are exposed, no consensus has emerged on how this might be accomplished. Indeed, the UASI grant program has frequently been criticized for inadequately calculating risk and therefore for failing to distribute resources in proportion to urban areas' shares of total terrorism risk.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA449118

Entities

People

  • Andrew R Morral
  • Henry H. Willis
  • Jamison J. Medby
  • Terrence K. Kelly

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Homeland Security
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • New York
  • Radiological Weapons
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Training
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Vulnerability
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Strategic Security Studies