Global Catastrophic Risks
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 September 2011
- ISBN 9780199606504
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 229x156x36 mm
- Weight 858 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Tables and figures 0
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Short description:
A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on such risks arising from natural catastrophes (Earth-based or beyond), 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 asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts, Earth-based 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.
Review from previous edition This volume is remarkably entertaining and readable...It's risk assessment meets science fiction.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
I Background
Long-term astrophysical processes
Evolution theory and the future of humanity
Millenial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats
Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks
Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks
Systems-based risk analysis
Catastrophes and insurance
Public policy towards catastrophe
II Risks from Nature
Super-volcanism 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
III 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
IV Risks from hostile acts
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
Author's biographies
Index
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