An Anthology of Global Risk

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dc.contributorEDITOR: Beard, SJ; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2834-0993; Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
dc.contributorEDITOR: Hobson, Tom; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1244-3787; Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
dc.contributor.editorBeard, SJ
dc.contributor.editorHobson, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-07T04:45:51Z
dc.date.available2024-10-07T04:45:51Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-03
dc.date.updated2024-10-07T04:45:48Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractThis 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 The volume curates a series of research articles, including previously published and unpublished work, exploring the nature and ethics of catastrophic global risk, the tools and methodologies being developed to study it, the diverse drivers that are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.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0360
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111146
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111153
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111160
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111207
dc.identifier.isbn9781805111177
dc.identifier.otherc0ac83bf-018f-4175-8a47-071189ea022e
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/805
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rightsEmbargo: none
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectGPQD
dc.subjectGTF
dc.subjectJFF
dc.subjectJFFS
dc.subjectPOL028000
dc.subjectPOL033000
dc.subjectSOC026000
dc.subjectSOC040000
dc.subjectGTQ
dc.subjectJBFF
dc.subjectJHB
dc.subjectJPQB
dc.subjectEnvironmental Studies
dc.subjectPolitics and Sociology
dc.subjectCivilization collapse
dc.subjectExistential Risk Studies key texts
dc.subjectGlobal Risk
dc.subjectGlobal risk reduction
dc.subjectHuman extinction
dc.subjectSafeguard humanity
dc.titleAn Anthology of Global Risk
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33

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