Special issue: Biosecurity research and strategy: responding to evolving threats and challenges

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 12(2-4) 2009

• The meaning and practice of biosecurity
• Biosecurity from the ecologist's perspective: developing a more comprehensive approach
• Terrorism, biosecurity and endogenous risk
• Risk assessment and management of animal disease-related biosecurity
• Pathogen security: the illusion of security in foreign policy and biodefence
• The bug and the bomb: medical readiness as a national strategic priority
• The future of biosecurity
• Societal stability, public health and primary care as three pillars of defence in biosecurity
• Enhancing biosecurity through early recognition and reporting of public health risks: meeting the challenges of the revised international health regulations
• Simulation to assess the efficacy of US airport entry screening of passengers for pandemic influenza
• Facility location and multi-modality mass dispensing strategies and emergency response for biodefence and infectious disease outbreaks
• Biosecurity, international trade and invasive species: improving US capacity to assess risk
• Material control and accountability for laboratory biosecurity

Submitted papers

• Strategies to improve the communication of probability information in risk analyses
• A test of the relationship between self-classified financial risk-tolerance and investment risk-taking behaviour