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Global Catastrophic Risks 2022: a year of colliding consequences [PDF]

, 2022
Ukraine war, nuclear risk, climate change, Covid intersect to create unprecedented 'polycrisis'. Global catastrophic risks have intensified at an unprecedented rate in 2022, intersecting and reinforcing each other with far-reaching consequences.

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Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe

Nature Communications
Aerosol-producing catastrophes like nuclear war or asteroid strikes, though rare, pose serious risks to human survival. The injected aerosols would reduce solar radiation, lower temperatures, and alter precipitation, impacting crop productivity ...
Chloee M. McLaughlin, Yuning Shi, Vishnu Viswanathan, Ruairidh J. H. Sawers, Armen R. Kemanian, Jesse R. Lasky   +5 more
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A new InSAR-based framework for assessing tailings dam failure risks: With the robust separation of consolidation settlements

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Ground surface displacements monitored by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) techniques are a useful indicator for revealing precursors and assessing risks of tailings dam failures.
Zefa Yang, Xiangyu Huang, Jingze Li, Zhiwei Li, Qifeng He, Jun Hu   +5 more
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The state of global catastrophic risk research: a bibliometric review

Earth System Dynamics
Abstract. The global catastrophic risk (GCR) and existential risk (ER) literature focuses on analyzing and preventing potential major global catastrophes including a human extinction event. Over the past two decades, the field of GCR/ER research has grown considerably. However, there has been little meta-research on the field itself. How large has this
Jehn, Florian Ulrich, Engler, John-Oliver, Arnscheidt, Constantin, Wache, Magdalena, Ilin, Ekaterina, Cook, Laura, Sundaram, Lalitha S., Hanusch, Frederic, Kemp, Luke   +8 more
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UAP and Global Catastrophic Risks [PDF]

: After 2017 NY Times publication, the stigma of the scientific discussion of the problem of so-called UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) was lifted. Now the question arises: how UAP will affect the future of humanity, and especially, the probability of
Turchin, Alexey
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Can the Artificial Release of Fluorinated Gases Offset Global Cooling Due to Supervolcanic Eruptions?

Atmosphere
Large volcanic eruptions, such as the prehistoric Yellowstone eruption, induce abrupt global cooling—by some estimates at a rate of ~1 °C/year, lasting for more than a decade.
Yangyang Xu, Nathanael P. Ribar, Jeffrey Sachnik, Gunnar W. Schade, Andrew John Lockley, Yi Ge Zhang, Pengfei Yu, Jianxin Hu, Guus J. M. Velders   +8 more
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Establishing a theoretical foundation for measuring global health security: a scoping review

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Since the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic, the concept of measuring health security capacity has become increasingly important within the broader context of health systems-strengthening, enhancing responses to public health emergencies ...
Sanjana J. Ravi, Diane Meyer, Elizabeth Cameron, Michelle Nalabandian, Beenish Pervaiz, Jennifer B. Nuzzo   +5 more
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Principles to guide research and policy on psychological well-being in remote island developing states in the South Pacific

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Adverse climatic changes around the globe and predictions of catastrophic and irreversible alteration in global weather patterns, temperature rise, and coast-line habitability require a careful examination of consequences on the resilience and mental ...
Levente L. Orbán
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Flood-induced population displacements in the world

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Strengthening the resilience of societies to extreme weather events is an urgent and critical priority around the world. Extreme weather often causes population displacement that compromises human security.
Kaoru Kakinuma, Michael J Puma, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Masahiro Tanoue, Emerson A Baptista, Shinjiro Kanae   +5 more
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“Bounded States”: How (Extreme) Risk Constrains the Aspiration for Status

Politics and Governance
We introduce the concept of “bounded states” to analyse how aspiration and risk (exposure and vulnerability to threats) shape the politics of status-seeking among states.
Kennedy Mbeva, Reuben Makomere
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