This book deals with the state-of-the-art of physical security knowledge and research in the chemical and process industries. Legislation differences between Europe and the USA are investigated, followed by an overview of the how, what and why of contemporary security risk assessment in this particular industrial sector. Innovative solutions such as attractiveness calculations and the use of game theory, advancing the present science of adversarial risk analysis, are discussed. The book further stands up for developing and employing dynamic security risk assessments, for instance based on Bayesian networks, and using OR methods to truly move security forward in the chemical and process industries.

Contributions by: Francesca Argenti, Shailendra Bajpai, Paul Baybutt, Valerio Cozzani, J. P. Gupta, Cecilia Haskins, Gabriele Landucci, Nicola Paltrinieri, Hans J. Pasman, Luca Talarico, Laobing Zhang