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Global catastrophic risk from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Globalisation supports the clustering of critical infrastructure systems, sometimes in proximity to lower-magnitude (VEI 3–6) volcanic centres. In this emerging risk landscape, moderate volcanic eruptions might have cascading, catastrophic effects.
Lara Mani, Asaf Tzachor, Paul Cole
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Global policymakers and catastrophic risk [PDF]
Policy Sciences, 2021 AbstractThere is a rapidly developing literature on risks that threaten the whole of humanity, or a large part of it. Discussion is increasingly turning to how such risks can be governed. This paper arises from a study of those involved the governance of risks from emerging technologies, examining the perceptions of global catastrophic risk within the ...
Christopher Nathan
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Progress in Disaster Science, 2022 The effects of the crossing Planetary Boundaries and Global Catastrophic Risk (GCR) events on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) efforts, international development targets, and any future international development target iterations are not well understood ...
Tom Cernev
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A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk
Frontiers in Climate, 2021 Injecting particles into atmosphere to reflect sunlight, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), represents a potential technological solution to the threat of climate change. But could the cure be worse than the disease?
Aaron Tang, Luke Kemp
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No Place to Hide? Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk [PDF]
Global ChallengesWhat places on Earth are most resilient to global catastrophic risk (GCR)? We provide the first study of what locations are more resilient against the impacts of nuclear war, near‐Earth objects, large‐magnitude volcanic eruptions, large‐scale ...
Florian Ulrich Jehn +7 more
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Systemic contributions to global catastrophic risk
Global SustainabilityNon-technical summary We live in a time of significant global risk. Some research has focused on understanding systemic sources of this risk, while other research has focused on possible worst-case outcomes.
Constantin W. Arnscheidt +11 more
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Classifying global catastrophic risks
Futures, 2018 We present a novel classification framework for severe global catastrophic risk scenarios. Extending beyond existing work that identifies individual risk scenarios, we propose analysing global catastrophic risks along three dimensions: the critical systems affected, global spread mechanisms, and prevention and mitigation failures.
Shahar Avin +2 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure associated to bellwether surgery care in Northcentral Ethiopia [PDF]
BMC SurgeryBackground Bellwether procedures—caesarean section, laparotomy, and open fracture management- are core indicators for monitoring safe, equitable, and affordable surgical care in a country.
Atalel Fentahun Awedew
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Assessing the integration of social protection into infectious disease policies: a multi-country analysis of TB, HIV, and malaria strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundTuberculosis (TB), HIV, and malaria continue to impose major economic hardship on households in Sub-Saharan Africa. While global frameworks such as the WHO End TB Strategy and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) emphasize social protection ...
Isabelle Munyangaju +3 more
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Are There Real Global Catastrophic Biological Risks?
Vojenské rozhledyBiosecurity and biodefence (i.e. all countermeasures preventing the spread of a biological agent in the environment and population) are on the routine agenda of states and their militaries. Somewhat on the sidelines are the Global Catastrophic Biological
Aleš Macela, Vanda Boštíková
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