Main Title |
Catastrophe : risk and response / |
Author |
Posner, Richard A.
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Publisher |
Oxford University Press, |
Year Published |
2004 |
OCLC Number |
55067277 |
ISBN |
0195178130 (alk. paper); 9780195178135 (alk. paper) |
Subjects |
Emergency management ;
Disasters ;
Risk assessment ;
Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects ;
Rampen ;
Risk management ;
Technische vernieuwing ;
Disasters ;
Emergency management ;
Risk assessment ;
Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ELBM |
HV551.2.P675 2004 |
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AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
01/22/2014 |
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Collation |
x, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Notes |
What are catastrophic risks, and how catastrophic are they? -- Why so little is being done about the catastrophic risks -- How to evaluate the catastrophic risks and the possible responses to them -- How to reduce the catastrophic risks. Posner considers how we can better prepare for the chance of an event - such as voraciously self-replicating nanomachines, a world-ending accident in a high-energy partical accelerator or an asteroid collision - so catastrophic that we find it hard to conceive of the consequences. |
Place Published |
Oxford ; New York |
PUB Date Free Form |
2004 |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2004009728 |
Merged OCLC records |
57000416; 57343191 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20140113130422 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
03125cam 22006494a 45020 |