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Inequality’s contribution to global catastrophic risk
Inequality is rising and so is global catastrophic risk. These two problems are not independent from each other. Inequality has historically been a major driver of social instability, and is increasing the risk of global catastrophes today. We demonstrate this by drawing on the rich literature around societal collapse and global catastrophe from both ...
Florian Jehn, Daniel Hoyer
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The Challenge of Global Catastrophic Biological Risks [PDF]
Health Security, 2017 openaire +2 more sources
3. Classifying Global Catastrophic Risk
Identifying a lack of satisfactory methodologies for classifying Global Catastrophic Risk (GCR) scenarios, this chapter proposes a new classification framework which draws together multiple areas of knowledge. The suggested framework categorises GCR scenarios according to the critical systems affected, the mechanism by which the thread is spread ...
Shahar Avin +5 more
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Warming climate amplifies glacier hazards on the China-Pakistan Highway
Journal of Hydrology: Regional StudiesStudy region: China–Pakistan Karakoram Highway (KKH) and its surroundings. Study focus: Glaciers along the China–Pakistan International Karakoram Highway (KKH) exhibit relative stable or mass gain, a phenomenon termed “Karakoram Anomaly”, contrasting ...
Chengde Yang +7 more
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Revista Gerencia de Riesgos y Seguros (nueva época): Número 171 - junio 2022
, 2022 MAPFRE Global Risks
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Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks
, 2006 All else being equal, not many people would prefer to destroy the world. Even faceless corporations, meddling governments, reckless scientists, and other agents of doom, require a world in which to achieve their goals of profit, order, tenure, or other ...
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Innovations in Government Responses to Catastrophic Risk Sharing for Agriculture in Developing Countries [PDF]
Markets for transferring catastrophic risk in agriculture are woefully lacking in developing countries. Even in developed countries, markets for transferring the risk of crop losses caused by natural hazards generally exist only with large government ...
Hartell, Jason G. +2 more
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The Unholy Trinity: Fat Tails, Tail Dependence, and Micro-Correlations [PDF]
Recent events in the financial and insurance markets, as well as the looming challenges of a globally changing climate point to the need to re-think the ways in which we measure and manage catastrophic and dependent risks.
Cooke, Roger M., Kousky, Carolyn
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