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almahu_9949891152802882
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 708 pages) :
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82 illustrations, 29 tables.
ISBN:
9781805111160
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9781805111177
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9781805111207
Inhalt:
"This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by providing open access to original research and insights in this rapidly evolving field. At its heart, this book highlights the ongoing development of new academic paradigms and theories of change that have emerged from a community of researchers in and around the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The chapters in this book challenge received notions of human extinction and civilization collapse and seek to chart new paths towards existential security and hope. The volume curates a series of research articles, including previously published and unpublished work, exploring the nature and ethics of catastrophic global risk, the tools and methodologies being developed to study it, the diverse drivers that are currently pushing it to unprecedented levels of danger, and the pathways and opportunities for reducing this. In each case, they go beyond simplistic and reductionist accounts of risk to understand how a diverse range of factors interact to shape both catastrophic threats and our vulnerability and exposure to them and reflect on different stakeholder communities, policy mechanisms, and theories of change that can help to mitigate and manage this risk. Bringing together experts from across diverse disciplines, the anthology provides an accessible survey of the current state of the art in this emerging field. The interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary nature of the cutting-edge research presented here makes this volume a key resource for researchers and academics. However, the editors have also prepared introductions and research highlights that will make it accessible to an interested general audience as well. Whatever their level of experience, the volume aims to challenge readers to take on board the extent of the multiple dangers currently faced by humanity, and to think critically and proactively about reducing global risk."--Publisher's website.
Anmerkung:
"This book is part of a 2-volume set. The first volume in the set is: The era of global risk"--Publisher's website.
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Additional resources available from the publisher's website.
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Available through Open Book Publishers.
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Introduction / SJ Beard, Tom Hobson -- 1. Ripples on the Great Sea of Life: A Brief History of Existential Risk Studies / SJ Beard, Émile Torres -- 2. Democratising Risk: In Search of a Methodology to Study Existential Risk / Zoe Cremer, Luke Kemp -- 3. Classifying Global Catastrophic Risk / Shahar Avin, Bonnie C. Wintle, Julius Weitzdörfer, Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, William J. Sutherland, Martin Rees -- 4. Governing Boring Apocalypses: A New Typology of Existential Vulnerabilities and Exposures for Existential Risk Research / Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Matthijs Maas -- 5. Existential Risk, Creativity and Well-Adapted Science / Adrian Currie -- 6. An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify the Likelihood of Existential Hazards / SJ Beard, Thomas Rowe, James Fox -- 7. Scanning Horizons in Research, Policy and Practice / Bonnie C. Wintle, Mahlo N. C. Kennicutt, William J. Sutherland -- 8. Exploring Artificial Intelligence Futures / Shahar Avin -- 9. Accumulating Evidence Using Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning: A Living Bibliography About Existential Risk and Global Catastrophic Risk / Gorm Shackleford, Luke Kemp, Catherine Rhodes, Lalitha Sundaram, Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, Elliot M. Jones, Zachary Freitas-Grof, SJ Beard, Shahar Avin, John B. Hume, Lydia Collas, David Denkenberger, William J. Sutherland, Haydn Belfield, David Price, Daniel Hurt, Bryony C. Cade, Michael Levot, Julius Weitzdörfer, Harry Watkins, Dag Sørebø, David PyleTheodore Stone, Thomas Frederick Johnson -- 10. The Mortality of States (MOROS) Dataset / Luke Kemp -- 11. Enabling the Participatory Exploration of Alternative Futures With ParEvo / Rick Davies, Lara Mani, SJ Beard, Tom Hobson -- 12. Global Catastrophic Risk From Low Magnitude Volcanic Eruptions / Paul Cole, Azaf Tzachor, Lara Mani -- 13. Re-Framing the Threat of Global Warming: An Empirical Causal Loop Diagram of Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Societal Collapse / Richard Lupton, Catherine Richards, Julian Allwood -- 14. Existential Change: Lesson from Climate Change for Existential Risk / Luke Kemp, SJ Beard -- 15. A Fate Worse Than Warming? : Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Catastrophic Risk / Luke Kemp, Aaron Tang -- 16. Bioengineering Horizon Scan 2020 / Luke Kemp, Christian R Boehm, Malcolm Dando, Lauren A Holt, Jonathan A Napier, Catherine Rhodes, Lalitha Sundaram, Bonnie C. Wintle, Rocco Casagrande, Piers Millett, Wibool Piyawattanametha, Anna Roessing, Philip Shapira, Eriko Takano, Laura Adam, Rainer Breitling, Nicholas G Evans, Todd Kuiken, Alemka Markotić, Cassidy Nelson, Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, Edward Perello, Deborah Scott, Robert D J Smith, Nadia B Zahra, Appolinaire Djikeng, Richard Hammond, Kelly Hills, Anne Osbourn, Megan J Palmer, Nicola J Patron, Vanessa Restrepo-Schild, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Christopher Simuntala, Gwynn Uttmark, William J. Sutherland -- 17. Artificial Canaries: Early Warning Signs for Anticipatory and Democratic Governance of AI / Zoe Cremer, Jess Whittlestone -- 18. Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in Global Risk / Catherine Rhodes, Paul Ingram, Catherine Richards, Clarissa Rios Rojas -- 19. The Cartography of Global Catastrophic Governance / Luke Kemp, Catherine Rhodes -- 20. The Stepping Stones Approach to Nuclear Disarmament Diplomacy / Paul Ingram -- 21. It Takes a Village: The Shared Responsibility of "Raising" an Autonomous Weapon / Amritha Jayanthi, Shahar Avin -- 22. Representation of Future Generations in United Kingdom Policy-Making / Natalie Jones, Mark O'Brien, Thomas Ryan -- 23. Financing Our Final Hour / Luke Kemp, Haydn Belfield, Ellen Quigley, Julius Weitzdörfer, SJ Beard.
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