Global catastrophic risks / edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bostrom, Nick, 1973-, Ćirković, Milan M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Natural disasters. Disasters. Risk assessment.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

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. Ćirković
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.

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