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Unit 1 – Individual Project 

Running head:  CONDUCTING A COMMUNITY RISK ANALYSIS

Assignment Description

Conduct a risk assessment on a community of your choice, with specific focus on a specific facility or system within that community that you determine is part of the broader community’s critical infrastructure (e.g., hospital, water system, power system). You should select the community (town, city, county, region, state, or nation) considering the availability of information that exists or your access to information (e.g., your ability to interview community leaders).

Assignment Guidelines

• Address the following in 3-5 pages:
  • Describe (briefly) the community       and why you selected it (e.g., demographics, topography/geography,       climate, criticality of CI, political issues).
  • Outline the risk portfolio of the       selected community (e.g., flood zones; high-value terror target).
    • How did you compile that list?
  • What other risk portfolio and       assessments for the community exist (e.g., local hazard mitigation plan,       DHS assessments)? Explain.
  • Describe the critical facility or       system that you selected and describe why it is critical to the selected       community.
  • What are the possible/probable       outcomes of the risks that you identified as occurring as they relate to       the whole community and, in greater detail, to the specific       infrastructure you selected? Explain in detail.
  • What are the possible/probable       cascading effects at the local, regional, national, or international       level should one of the risks occur and affect the critical       facility/infrastructure you selected? Explain in detail.