Readings 1

Week 1 Readings & Video

Skim read and/or view the following assignments and sets of assignments.

Select any one assignment or set of assignments as a topic for your long posting due on Thursday.
Select a second assignment or single set of assignments as a topic for your short posting due on Friday.
- Some assignments may include questions that you are being asked to address in a long or short posting.
- All postings should include a focus on relevance of the assigned material to some aspect of planning and preparedness for homeland security and emergency management or planning or preparedness for homeland security and emergency management in general.

* If you have viewed and/or read some of the assignments before for other courses in the Emergency Management Certificate Program, please focus your comments in your postings on some some specific aspect of planning and preparedness or on planning and preparedness in general.

Threats & Challenges

Paula D. Gordon, “Infrastructure Threats and Challenges: Before and After September 11, 2001 Download Infrastructure Threats and Challenges: Before and After September 11, 2001
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- In your long posting, address insights concerning the different perspectives on critical infrastructure that you may have gleaned from this

Improving Security & Infrastructure

Paula D. Gordon, “Improving Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Download Improving Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
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- Part 1-3.
- In your long posting, address insights concerning the different perspectives on critical infrastructure that you may have gleaned from Parts 1 – 3 of the report.

Task Group Report

The Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Task Group Report on Critical Infrastructure. Download The Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Task Group Report on Critical Infrastructure.
- January 2006 (50 pages).
- In your long posting discuss the most important insights that you found in this