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Four Global Catastrophic Risks – A Personal View [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Global catastrophic risks (GCRs) affect a larger than hemispheric area and produce death tolls of many millions and/or economic losses greater than several trillion USD. Here I explore the biophysical, social-economic, demographic and cultural strands of
Russell Blong
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Classifying global catastrophic risks [PDF]
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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Global catastrophic and existential risks communication scale [PDF]
Futures, 2018 Abstract Existential risks threaten the future of humanity, but they are difficult to measure. However, to communicate, prioritize and mitigate such risks it is important to estimate their relative significance. Risk probabilities are typically used, but for existential risks they are problematic due to ambiguity, and because quantitative ...
David Denkenberger, Alexey Turchin
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Assessing natural global catastrophic risks. [PDF]
Nat Hazards (Dordr), 2023 The risk of global catastrophe from natural sources may be significantly larger than previous analyses have found. In the study of global catastrophic risk (GCR), one line of thinking posits that deep human history renders natural GCRs insignificant. Essentially, the fact that natural hazards did not cause human extinction at any previous time makes it
Baum SD.
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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, Keith Hyams
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Inequalities in financial burden of tuberculosis among affected families across 19 low- and middle-income countries. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthTuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem, with majority of the cases occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite its growing burden, cross-country evidence on inequalities in financial burden among affected ...
Gilbert Eshun +2 more
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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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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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Evolution of alpha-Gal synthesis - a growing risk for alpha Gal syndrome [PDF]
Annals of MedicineBackground Alpha-Gal syndrome (AGS) is a growing burden worldwide associated with arthropods and allergies with pathologies such as urticaria, digestive and anaphylactic reactions. These reactions commonly appear 2–6 h after consumption of mammalian meat
Rita Vaz-Rodrigues, José de la Fuente
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Global Catastrophic Biological Risks: Toward a Working Definition [PDF]
Health Security, 2017 The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security is working to analyze and deepen scientific dialogue regarding potential global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs), in a continuation of its mission to reduce the consequences of epidemics and disasters.
Sanjana J Ravi +2 more
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