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UNINA9910450276603321 |
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Autore |
Posner Richard A |
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Titolo |
Catastrophe [[electronic resource] ] : risk and response / / Richard A. Posner |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Pres, 2004 |
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0-19-756244-2 |
0-19-988438-2 |
0-19-530647-3 |
1-280-42838-4 |
0-19-534639-4 |
1-60256-541-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Emergency management |
Disasters |
Risk assessment |
Technological innovations - Moral and ethical aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? Posner argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost- |
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