Global Catastrophic Risks
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 3 July 2008
- ISBN 9780198570509
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages578 pages
- Size 241x162x34 mm
- Weight 1016 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables and figures 0
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Short description:
A Global Catastrophic Risk is a risk that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on Global Catastrophic Risks arising from natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and social collapse.
MoreLong description:
A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again.
In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts look at the gravest risks facing humanity in the 21st century, including natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general artificial intelligence, and social collapse. The book also addresses over-arching issues - policy responses and methods for predicting and managing catastrophes.
This is invaluable reading for anyone interested in the big issues of our time; for students focusing on science, society, technology, and public policy; and for academics, policy-makers, and professionals working in these acutely important fields.
This volume is remarkably entertaining and readable...It's risk assessment meets science fiction.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Background
Long-term astrophysical processes
Evolution theory and the future of humanity
Millenial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats
Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgememnt of global risks
Observation selection effects: the Fermi paradox, the Doomsday argument and the simulation argument
Systems-based risk analysis
Catastrophes and insurance
Public policy toward catastrophe
Risks from Nature
Supervolcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import
Hazards from comets and asteroids
Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment
Risks from Unintended Consequences
Climate change and global risk
Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future
Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk
Big troubles, imagined and real
Catastrophe, social collapse, and and human extinction
The continuing threat of nuclear war
Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril
Biotechnology and biosecurity
Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk
The totalitarian threat
Acknowledgements
Index
Author's Biographies
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