Catastrophe, risk and response, Richard A. Posner
Type
Label
Catastrophe, risk and response, Richard A. Posner
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Catastrophe
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
55067277
Responsibility statement
Richard A. Posner
Sub title
risk and response
Summary
Posner considers how we can better prepare for the chance of an event - such as voraciously self-replicating nanomachines, a world-ending accident in a high-energy partical accelerator or an asteroid collision - so catastrophic that we find it hard to conceive of the consequences
Table Of Contents
What are catastrophic risks, and how catastrophic are they? -- Why so little is being done about the catastrophic risks -- How to evaluate the catastrophic risks and the possible responses to them -- How to reduce the catastrophic risks
Creator
Subject
- Technological innovations + Moral and ethical aspects
- Catastrophes
- Innovations + Aspect moral
- Innovaciones tecnológicas + Aspectos morales y éticos
- Emergency management
- Disasters
- Évaluation du risque
- Desastres + Administración
- Technische vernieuwing
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- Rampen
- Gestion des situations d'urgence
- Administración de riesgos
Content
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- Classification2
- Creator1
- Subject14
- Technological innovations + Moral and ethical aspects
- Catastrophes
- Innovations + Aspect moral
- Innovaciones tecnológicas + Aspectos morales y éticos
- Emergency management
- Disasters
- Évaluation du risque
- Desastres + Administración
- Technische vernieuwing
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- Rampen
- Gestion des situations d'urgence
- Administración de riesgos
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1