{"product_id":"emerging-threats-of-synthetic-biology-and-biotechnology-addressing-security-and-resilience-issues-hardcover","title":"Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology: Addressing Security and Resilience Issues - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin D. Trump\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarie-Valentine Florin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEdward Perkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSynthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks and applications to humans and the environment. \u003cbr\u003eThis open access book presents discussions on risks and mitigation strategies for these technologies including biosecurity, or the potential of synthetic biology technologies and processes to be deliberately misused for nefarious purposes. The book presents strategies to prevent, mitigate, and recover from 'dual-use concern' biosecurity challenges that may be raised by individuals, rogue states, or non-state actors. Several key topics are explored including opportunities to develop more coherent and scalable approaches to govern biosecurity from a laboratory perspective up to the international scale and strategies to prevent potential health and environmental hazards posed by deliberate misuse of synthetic biology without stifling innovation. The book brings together the expertise of top scholars in synthetic biology and biotechnology risk assessment, management, and communication to discuss potential biosecurity governing strategies and offer perspectives for collaboration in oversight and future regulatory guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin D. TRUMP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Benjamin D. TRUMP is a Research Social Scientist for the US Army Corps of Engineers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Trump's work focuses on decision making and governance of activities under significant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euncertainty, such as emerging and enabling technologies (synthetic biology, nanotechnology)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand developing organizational, infrastructural, social, and informational resilience against\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esystemic threats to complex interconnected systems. Dr. Trump served as a delegate to assist US\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresence in OECD's Global Science Forum in 2017, and was the President of the Society for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRisk Analysis' Decision Analysis and Risk Specialty Group in 2018-2019, as well as its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResilience Analysis Specialty Group in 2019-2020. He was selected as a Fellow of the Emerging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaders in Biosecurity Initiative, Class of 2019. In December 2020, Dr. Trump was installed as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Treasurer of the Society for Risk Analysis. Dr. Trump was also a contributing author of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational Risk Governance Council's Guidelines for the Governance of Systemic Risks, as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewell as their 2nd Volume of the Resource Guide on Resilience. Dr. Trump is also frequently\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactive with several Advanced Research Workshops for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience for Peace Programme. Co-authored with Dr. Igor Linkov, Dr. Trump's book The Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Practice of Resilience (2019) includes a detailed discussion of the methodological, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephilosophical, and governance-related work behind the concept of resilience. His follow-up book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Dr. Myriam Merad, Expertise Under Scrutiny (2020), addresses the challenges facing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecision makers of how to construct and implement scientifically formed and institutionally valid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecisions within an environment of heightened uncertainty and public criticism. Dr. Trump\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereceived his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, Department of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealth Management and Policy in 2016. He received an M.S. (2012) in Public Policy and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManagement and a B.S. in Political Science (2011) from Carnegie Mellon University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie-Valentine FLORIN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie-Valentine Florin is the Executive Director of the International Risk Governance Center\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(IRGC), at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. IRGC acts at the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterface between science and policy and is particularly active about risks related to emerging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etechnologies, marked by complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. She continues to develop the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econcepts and guidelines for risk governance established by the IRGC Foundation, with a focus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon emerging and systemic risks, for which the risk and the resilience governance perspectives are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelevant. She convenes multi-stakeholder groups of experts to consider the particular risks and\u003c\/p\u003egovernance challenges that arise in specific sectors such as digital technologies, climate\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eengineering, nanotechnology, or synthetic biology. Before joining the IRGC Foundation in 2006, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMs Florin spent the first part of her career (1984-1999) in an international socio-cultural research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand marketing consulting firm. She graduated from Science Po in Paris (public policy and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emanagement) and then earned post-graduate diplomas in marketing strategy, sustainable\u003c\/p\u003edevelopment and environmental diplomacy. She is Society for Risk Analysis Fellow and a\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emember of the Advisory Board to the Global Risk Report of the World Economic Forum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward J. PERKINS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Edward J. PERKINS is currently the Acting Army Deputy Chief Scientist and Army Senior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearch Scientist for Environmental Networks and Genetic Toxicology with the Army Corps of\u003c\/p\u003eEngineers. His work focuses on using genetics and biotechnology to assess chemical hazards\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand develop novel applications to support Army activities including new materials and synthetic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebiology. Dr. Perkins provides guidance for the Army and Department of Defense (DoD) on basic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand applied research programs, in addition to consulting on issues of national and international\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimportance for the Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense, the United States\u003c\/p\u003eEnvironmental Protection Agency, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevelopment. He has published widely on genetics, toxicology and novel approaches for risk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassessment, including 4 books and over 150 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Dr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerkins has served many organizations as an expert panelist and has been a co-organizer for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emultiple national and international workshops and conferences. Dr Perkins received his Ph.D. in\u003c\/p\u003eGenetics and Cell Biology from Washington State University in 1987 and a B.A. in Genetics\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom University of Illinois in 1983. He completed his postdoctoral training in genetics at the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Washington and Washington State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIgor LINKOV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Igor LINKOV is the Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead with the US Army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngineer Research and Development Center, and Adjunct Professor with Carnegie Mellon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity. Dr. Linkov has managed multiple risk and resilience assessments and management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprojects in many application domains, including emerging materials and technologies, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecybersecurity, transportation, supply chain, homeland security and defense, and critical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfrastructure. He was part of several Interagency Committees and Working Groups tasked with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeveloping risk and resilience metrics and management approaches, including the US National\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNanotechnology Initiative. Dr. Linkov has organized more than thirty national and international\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econferences and continuing education workshops, including NATO workshops on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNanotechnology in Portugal (2009), Climate Change in Iceland (2010, 2012), Resilience in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortugal (2016), Estonia (2018) and Finland (2019), as well as Chaired Program Committee for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2015 and 2019 World Congresses on Risk in Singapore and Cape Town. He has published\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewidely on environmental policy, environmental modeling, and risk analysis, including twenty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efive books and over 400 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in top journals, like Nature, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNature Nanotechnology, Nature Climate Change, among others. He has served on many review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand advisory panels for DOD, DHS, FDA, EPA, NSF, EU and other US and international\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eagencies. Dr. Linkov is Society for Risk Analysis Fellow and recipient of 2005 Chauncey Starr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward for exceptional contribution to Risk Analysis, 2014 Outstanding Practitioner Award as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewell as 2019 Distinguished Educator Award. He is Elected Fellow with the American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Linkov has a B.S. and M.Sc. in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhysics and Mathematics (Polytechnic Institute) and a Ph.D. in Environmental, Occupational and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadiation Health (University of Pittsburgh). 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