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Laddar... Catastrophe: Risk and Responseav Richard A. Posner
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. NA Professor Graciela Chichilnisky has chosen to discuss Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard Posner on FiveBooks as one of the top five on her subject - Risk Management, saying that: “…This is a book by a Chicago judge where he tries to explain what catastrophes are, why they are important to us and what are the outstanding issues that we need to resolve about them. It is about tsunamis and super-volcanoes, major tornadoes and floods – rare events that have momentous consequences. It is pretty accessible, not really technical but analytical. What interests me about the book is that it prompted me to develop a whole new way of looking at catastrophic risks... The book shows that in many ways we respond to catastrophic risks in what the author believes to be an irrational way. He is saying that for some reason we behave irrationally and we dismiss catastrophic risks because they are infrequent. But he doesn’t say why this is happening or what to do about it. This prompted me to explain why we dismiss them; why traditional ways of looking at risks do not work for catastrophic risks, and what to do about it.…” The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/graciela-chichilnisky inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? Posner argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, a scientifically literate legal profession, unprecedented international cooperation, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping effectively with the catastrophic risks. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)363.34Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Other social problems and services Other Public Safety Concerns Disasters (natural and otherwise)Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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