Global catastrophic risks /

Global catastrophic risks / edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković

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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 addi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Bostrom, Nick, 1973- (Editor), Ćirković, Milan M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2008
Subjects:
Disasters.
Natural disasters.
Risk assessment.
Disasters
Natural disasters
Risk assessment
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Ćirković
  • Long-term astrophysical processes / Fred C. Adams
  • Evolution theory and the future of humanity / Christopher Wills
  • Millenial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats / James J. Hughes
  • Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks / Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks / Milan M. Ćirković
  • Systems-based risk analysis / Yacov Y. Haimes
  • Catastrophes and insurance / Peter Taylor
  • Public policy towards catastrophe / Richard A. Posner
  • Super-volcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import / Michael R. Rampino
  • Hazards from comets and asteroids / William Napier
  • Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray busts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment / Arnon Dar
  • Climate change and global risk / David Frame and Myles R. Allen
  • Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future
  • Artificial intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk / Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Big troubles, imagined and real / Frank Wilczek
  • Catastrophe, social collapse, and human extinction / Robin Hanson
  • The continuing threat of nuclear war / Joseph Cirincione
  • Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril / Gary Ackerman and William C. Potter
  • Biotechnology and biosecurity / Ali Nouri and Christopher F. Chyba
  • Nanotechnology and global catastrophic risk / Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder
  • The totalitarian threat / Bryan Caplan

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