New York University's International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP), the world's first academic center dedicated to private sector preparedness, is proud to host its third annual International Public-Private Preparedness Summit at NYU's La Pietra Conference Center May 29-30, 2008.
2008 Florence Forum Supporting Documents
- Suggested Reading
- Lessons Learned, 2007
- Federal Highway Administration Interim Report on Minnesota Bridge Collapse, 2008 (pdf)
- Learning Lessons from the 2007 Floods. The Pitt Review, 2007 (pdf)
- Scotland Yard Release on Investigation into Assasination of Benazir Bhutto, 2008 (pdf)
- After Action report on US TOPOFF Exercise, 2007 (pdf)
- World Trade Center Bombing Litigation Court Ruling, 2008
- Climate Change
- Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 5 Summary Report - 2007 (pdf)
- CNA Report on "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change" - 2007 (pdf)
- IPCC Assessment Report 4 - Summary Report for Policy Makers - 2007 (pdf)
- Harvard Business Review "Climate Business/Business Climate" - 2007 (pdf)
- Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act S. 2191-2008 (pdf)
- How Companies Think About Climate Change. McKinsey, 2007 (pdf)
- National Academies' Report on "Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation"-2008 (pdf)
- Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach. Pew Center, 2008 (pdf)
- Certification
- Today|Tomorrow. ANSI Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)
- ANSI Standards Action, May 2008 (pdf)
- Setting International Standards. Walter Mattli and Tim Buthe, 2003 (pdf)
- Improving America's Security Act. U.S. Senate, 2007 (pdf)
- On the New Voluntary Corporate Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program. Dr. Matt Statler,International Center for Enterprise Preparedness, 2008 (pdf)
- Business Continuity’s Role in Supply Chain Resilience. Continuity Central, 2008
- DHS Needs to Do More to Spur Supply Chain Resiliency. Security Management, 2008
- Cyber Security
- A Framework for Using Insurance for Cyber-Risk Management. Commnications of the ACM, 2003 (pdf)
- The Myths and Facts behind Cyber Security Risks for Industrial Control Systems. VDE Congress, Berlin 2004 (pdf)
- Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to the 2008 RSA Conference
- Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia. The New York Times, May 29, 2007 (pdf)
- The New Front Line Estonia under Cyberassault. Michael Lesk, 2007 (pdf)
- Data Security in Financial Services. Financial Services Authority, 2008 (pdf)
- The Economic Consequences of Sharing Security Information. Esther Gal-Or and Anindya Ghose (pdf)
- Interpol’s Role Fighting CyberCrime (pdf)
- The U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, 2003 (pdf)
- The Next Battlefield. Michael Vatis, 2006 (pdf)
- Health Care Resiliency
- On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Face a Looming Medical and Mental Health Crisis. David Abramson, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, 2006 (pdf)
- The Concept of Assisted Management of Large-Scale Disasters by Horizontal Organizations. Journal of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2001 (pdf)
- Crossroads of Emergency Response. The Heritage Foundation, 2008 (pdf)
- The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. Institute of Medicine, 2007 (pdf)
- How prepared is Europe for Pandemic Influenza? London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2006 (pdf)
- Preparing for the Next Pandemic. Michael T. Osterholm, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005 (pdf)
- Roundtable Discussion: Corporate Pandemic Preparedness. Journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 2007 (pdf)
- Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act. US Senate, 2006 (pdf)
- Closing the Seams. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute, 2007 (pdf)
- Infectious Disease and National Security Strategic Information Needs. RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2006 (pdf)
- Ready or Not? The Trust for America's Health, 2007 (pdf)
- Resilience
- America the Resilient: Defying Terrorism and Mitigating Natural Disasters. Stephen E. Flynn, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 (pdf)
- Interdependent Seruciry in Interconnected Networks. Geoffrey Heal, Michael Kearns, Paul Kleindorfer, and Howard Kunreuther (pdf)
- Conceptualizing and Measuring Resilience. Kathleen Tierney and Michael Bruneau, 2007 (pdf)
- Supply Chain
- Improving Supply Chain Disaster Preparedness. Trevor Hale and Christopher R. Moberg. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 2005 (pdf)
- Economic Costs of Business Interruption to the Supply Chain. IBM, 2007 (pdf)
- Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination. Stephen E. Chick, Hamed Mamani and David Simchi-Levi, 2007 (pdf)
- Building a Resilient Supply Chain. Harvard Business Review, 2005 (pdf)
- Supply Chain Management under the Threat of International Terrorism. Yossi Sheffi, 2001
2007 Florence Forum Supporting Documents
- 2007 Summit Proceedings (pdf)
- 2007 Summit Agenda (pdf)
- 2007 Summit Overview (pdf)
- Additional Resources
- Documents Supporting Climate Change Roundtable (special thanks to Summit participant Karen Coyne)
- "Bill ties climate to national security" - Boston Globe, 4/9/2007
- "Security Council Holds First-Ever Debate on Impact of Climate Change" - United Nations Security Council, 4/17/2007
- "U.N. Council Hits Impasse Over Debate on Warming" - New York Times, 4/18/07
- Gloal Risk Report 2007 (pdf) - World Economic Forum
- Energy, Security and Climate: UK Concept Paper (pdf) - United Nations Security Council
- Climate Change 101 (pdf) - Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Pew Center on the States
- Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policy Makers (highlights) (pdf) - Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Corporate Strategies to Address Climate Change (pdf) - Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- The Security Implications of Climate Change for the UN System (pdf) - Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
- STERN REVIEW: The Economics of Climate Change (executive summary) (pdf) - Sir Nicolas Stern
- Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (summary for policymakers) - UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2006 Florence Forum Supporting Documents








