UID:
almahu_9949574777702882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 310 pages) :
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3 illustrations.
ISBN:
9781800647886
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9781800647893
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9781800647923
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9781805111009
Content:
"This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human extinction and civilization collapse. Bringing together experts from many disciplines, it provides an accessible survey of what we know about these threats, how we can understand them better, and most importantly what can be done to manage them effectively. These essays pair insights from decades of research and activism around global risk with the latest academic findings from the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. Voicing the work of world leading experts and tackling a variety of vital issues, they weigh up the demands of natural systems with political pressures and technological advances to build an empowering vision of how we can safeguard humanity's long-term future. The book covers both a comprehensive survey of how to study and manage global risks with in-depth discussion of core risk drivers: including environmental breakdown, novel technologies, global scale natural disasters, and nuclear threats. The Era of Global Risk offers a thorough analysis of the most serious dangers to humanity. Inspiring, accessible, and essential reading for both students of global risk and those committed to its mitigation, this book poses one critical question: how can we make sense of this era of global risk and move beyond it to an era of global safety?"--Publisher's website.
Note:
"This book is part of a 2-volume set. The other volume in the set is: An anthology of global risk"--Publisher's website.
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Available through Open Book Publishers.
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1. A Brief History of Existential Risk and the People Who Worked to Mitigate It (pp. 1-26) / SJ Beard, Rachel Bronson -- 2. Theories and Models: Understanding and Predicting Societal Collapse (pp. 27-54) / Sabin Roman -- 3. Existential Risk and Science Governance (pp. 55-78) / Lalitha Sundaram -- 4. Beyond 'Error and Terror': Global Justice and Global Catastrophic Risk (pp. 79-100) / Natalie Jones -- 5. We Have to Include Everyone: Enabling Humanity to Reduce Existential Risk / SJ Beard, Sheri Wells-Jensen -- 6. Natural Global Catastrophic Risks (pp. 123-146) / Lara Mani, Doug Erwin, Lindley Johnson -- 7. Ecological Breakdown and Human Extinction (pp. 147-172) / Luke Kemp -- 8. Biosecurity, Biosafety, and Dual Use: Will Humanity Minimise Potential Harms in the Age of Biotechnology? (pp. 173-200) / Kelsey Lane Warmbrod, Kobi Leins, Nancy Connell -- 9. From Turing's Speculations to an Academic Discipline: A History of AI Existential Safety (pp. 201-236) / John Burden, Sam Clarke, Jess Whittlestone --10. Military Artificial Intelligence as a Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk (pp. 237-284) / Di Cooke, Kayla Lucero-Matteucci, Matthijs Maas -- Afterword (pp. 285-290) / SJ Beard -- Preface (pp. vii-x) / Martin Rees -- 0. Introduction (pp. xi-xxiii) / SJ Beard, Martin Rees, Catherine Richards, Clarissa Rios Rojas.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
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