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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Posner, Richard A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Emergency management
Risk assessment
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects
Rampen.
Risk management.
Technische vernieuwing.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780195346398
0195346394
1423721896
9781423721895
9780195178135
0195178130
1280428384
9781280428388
0199884382
9780199884384
0195306473
9780195306477
1602565414
9781602565418
0197562442
9780197562444

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