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Public Attitudes to Responding to Global Catastrophic Risks: A New Zealand Case Study [PDF]
Risk AnalysisData and analysis files for: Public Attitudes to Responding to Global Catastrophic Risks: A New Zealand Case ...
Matt Boyd, Nick Wilson, John Kerr
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6. Natural Global Catastrophic Risks [PDF]
, 2023 To what extent is humanity vulnerable to natural catastrophic risks such as large-magnitude volcanic eruptions and Near-Earth Object impacts? And what does this risk landscape look like? This chapter explores the current state of research on natural catastrophic risks and considers how the latter are often underestimated, although their impact on our ...
Lara Mani, Doug Erwin, Lindley Johnson
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Asteroids: Assessing Catastrophic Risks [PDF]
Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2010 We evaluate two risk profiles: (i) global warming risks and (ii) collisions with asteroids that can cause the extinction of our species. The expected values computed for these two risks suggest that no action will be taken to avoid extinction. The result
Graciela Chichilnisky, Peter Eisenberger
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Proposing a Framework for Catastrophic Risk Management through Alternative Risk Transfer Instruments [PDF]
تحقیقات مالی, 2022 Objective: Global catastrophic risks are classified into 62 categories, 34 of which have been recorded in Iran. Such risks are major threats to the Iranian economy.
Hosaine Hasangholipoure +3 more
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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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Reducing the risks of nuclear war - the role of health professionals
Orapuh Journal, 2023 Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. Even a “limited” nuclear war involving only 250 of the 13 000 nuclear weapons in the world could kill 120 million people outright and cause global climate disruption leading to a nuclear ...
Kamran Abbasi +17 more
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Expression the Possible Scenarios of the Islamic Globalcity with a Futuristic Approach (Case Study: Isfahan) [PDF]
جغرافیا و آمایش شهری منطقهای, 2022 According to the writers, the city of Isfahan has the ability to become an Islamic global city, considering its historical records and natural, political and economic capabilities and its strategic position in the country and the Middle East region.
Hossein Kazemi, Jamal Mohammadi
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, 2021 Ponencias correspondientes a las jornadas organizadas por MAPFRE Global Risks los dias 9 y 10 de junio de 2021Mesa redonda: CATs medianas, frecuencia e impacto en la Industria Moderador: Javier San Basilio, Chief Underwriting Officer de MAPFRE RE ...
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Unwelcome consequences: Christina Dalcher’s Vox and John Lanchester’s The Wall
Crossroads, 2022 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsʼ Doomsday Clock, first introduced in 1947, recently moved the fictional clock forward; it now rests at 100 seconds to midnight, or 100 seconds from destroying ourselves. The numerous threats posed by nuclear weapons,
Adelheid Rundholz
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A Critical Look at Risk Assessments for Global Catastrophes [PDF]
Risk Analysis, 2004 Recent articles by Busza et al. (BJSW) and Dar et al. (DDH) argue that astrophysical data can be used to establish small bounds on the risk of a “killer strangelet” catastrophe scenario in the RHIC and ALICE collider experiments. The case for the safety of the experiments set out by BJSW does not rely solely on these bounds, but on theoretical ...
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