Catastrophe : risk and response /

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Introduction What is catastrophe?The organization of this bookSome useful disctinctions1. What are the catastrohpic risks, and how catastrophic are they? Natural catastrophesScientific accidentsOther unintended man-made catastrophesIntentional catastrophesCatastrophic synergies and lesser-included c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Posner, Richard A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Pres, 2004.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Emergency management.
Disasters.
Risk assessment.
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Disasters
Risk Assessment
Disaster Planning
Gestion des situations d'urgence.
Catastrophes.
Évaluation du risque.
Innovations > Aspect moral.
disasters.
risk assessment.
disaster planning.
Emergency management
Risk assessment
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Introduction What is catastrophe?The organization of this bookSome useful disctinctions1. What are the catastrohpic risks, and how catastrophic are they? Natural catastrophesScientific accidentsOther unintended man-made catastrophesIntentional catastrophesCatastrophic synergies and lesser-included catastrophes2. Why so little is being done about the catastrophic risks Cultural factorsPsychological factorsEconomic factors3. How to evaluate the catastrophic risks and the possible responses to them The difference cost-benefit analysis can make: the case of RHICA modest version of the precaution.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-314) and index.
ISBN:1602565414
9781602565418
9780195178135
0195178130
9780195346398
0195346394
9786610428380
6610428387

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