Catastrophe : risk and response /

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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Posner, Richard A. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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