Assessing the terrorist threat to the food supply: food defence, threat assessments, and the problem of vulnerability
Author(s) -
Gregory Dalziel
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of food safety nutrition and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1479-3911
pISSN - 1479-392X
DOI - 10.1504/ijfsnph.2011.042572
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , terrorism , food supply , threat assessment , food security , vulnerability assessment , business , computer security , political science , geography , economics , psychology , computer science , agricultural economics , law , agriculture , social psychology , psychological resilience , archaeology
Within a historically-informed framework utilising the related concepts of capability and intentions we identify and critically assess three core assumptions underlying the concept of food defence: In doing so, we find that food defence is largely driven by perceptions of vulnerability, the effect of which is a misperception in threat.
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