Rationale Behind PROTECT NEW YORK Terrorism continues to pose severe threats to New York City and upstate cities. The largest short-term dangers are those from conventional explosives, or explosives spiked with nerve agents or radiological materials, detonated at multiple crowded locations. The most ominous long-term threat is that technologies of mass destruction will be ever more easily produced in small laboratories by disaffected groups, by states engaging in secret wars through proxies, by fanatical religious cults, and even by deranged individuals. New York State faces the additional risk of human-transmissible pandemic influenza and other emerging or re-emerging diseases. It must also confront geophysical, atmospheric, technological, and epidemiological hazards. Some assert that global atmospheric change is bringing a new era of more intense hurricanes, with exposing New York City and Long Island to particular dangers of extreme winds and storm surge. Upstate has faced severe ice storms that destroy power lines and heating capability in cold weather. New York City and Western New York lie on seismic fault lines that pose low-probability but high-intensity risks. Concentrations of hazardous materials on roads and in chemical facilities continue to pose dangers from accidental or malicious spills. Disasters are in large part urban and regional problems, to be analyzed, mitigated, prepared for, responded to, and recovered from through initiatives coordinated at a regional scale. New York State and the New York Metro Area must commit themselves to mobilizing the best advice, finest planning, most knowledgeable experts, and best scientists and professionals for safeguarding our citizens. This knowledge needed will have to arise from numerous fields of science, engineering, biomedical sciences, and applied social science. Protect New York is established to foster communication, collaborative research, and advancement of knowledge on these subjects. Our objectives are to safeguard New York State and the Metropolitan New York area from terrorism and disaster, through research, education, and public service. We will pursue: The application of academic research, science and scholarship Translation of research results into training and implementation Incorporation of lessons and priorities from professional practice into research priorities Public learning and open debate Excellence in higher education, academic research, and training Advancement of knowledge and exchange of ideas Inter-campus and multi-disciplinary collaboration Service to New York State, the New York Metropolitan area, and municipal subdivisions of New York State. This web site is hosted through the courtesy of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. The web site and logo were designed courtesy of 8thPlanet.com. HOME | RATIONALE | HISTORY | INFORMATION | NEWS | JOURNAL | EVENTS | BOARD & MEMBERS | BYLAWS | APPLICATION TO JOIN | CONTACT
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