NEW HAZARDS/DISASTERS COMING

  1. More severe technological hazards
  2. Greater, more deadly impacts of natural hazards
  3. Less security for physical facilities, information systems and content
  4. Errors in human calculation -- miscalculation unintentional and intentional
  5. Biological and chemical (natural and man-made):
    • marine toxins; natural gas under lake bed
    • biotech hazards
  6. Terrorism:
    • nuclear, biological, and chemical agents
    • weapons of mass destruction
  7. Distant (international) source of disasters