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Global catastrophic risks

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Global catastrophic risks

[Book]

/ edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. aCirkoviac

Oxford ;New York

: Oxford University Press,

, 2008.

xxii, 554 p.

Language: انگلیسی

Print

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Long-term astrophysical processes / Fred C. Adams -- Evolution theory and the future of humanity / Christopher Wills -- Millennial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats / James J. Hughes -- Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks / Eliezer Yudkowsky -- Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks / Milan M. aCirkoviac -- Systems-based risk analysis / Yacov Y. Haimes -- Catastrophes and insurance / Peter Taylor -- Public policy toward catastrophe / Richard A. Posner -- Supervolcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import / Michael R. Rampino -- Hazards from comets and asteroids / William Napier -- Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment / Arnon Dar -- Climate change and global risk / David Frame and Myles R. Allen -- Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future / Edwin Dennis Kilbourne -- Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk / Eliezer Yudkowski -- Big troubles, imagined and real / Frank Wilczek -- Catastrophe, social collapse, and human extinction / Robin Hanson -- The continuing threat of nuclear war / Joseph Cirincione -- Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril / Gary Ackerman and William C. Potter and -- Biotechnology and biosecurity / Ali Nouri and Christopher F. Chyba -- Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk / Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder -- The totalitarian threat / Bryan Caplan.

Natural disasters

Disasters

Risk assessment

Bostrom, Nick,1973-

aCirkoviac, Milan M

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