Conduct a risk assessment on a community of your choice (San Diego, CA), 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 1,000-1,500 words:

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.