Defending Against Terrorism, Natural Disaster, and All Hazards

摘要: This chapter considers both natural disasters and terrorism as threats. The defender chooses tradeoffs between investments in protection against disaster only, all-hazards protection. terrorist strategically how fiercely to attack. Three kinds of games are considered: when the agents move simultaneously; moves first; first. Conditions shown for each type agent prefers kind game. Sometimes their preferences coincide, but often opposite. An advantaged with a sufficiently low normalized unit cost investment relative that its opponent first, which deters entirely, causing maximum utility first mover zero deterred second mover, who avoid this When is cheap, it jointly protects terrorism. As increases, either pure or joins in, dependent on more effective. increases above sum individual costs, extent such drops zero, forms take over.