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001 2008006539
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005 20090901085718.0
008 080219s2008 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780198570509
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050 00 $aGB5014$b.G547 2008
082 00 $a363.34$222
245 00 $aGlobal catastrophic risks /$cedited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2008.
300 $axxii, 554 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aLong-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.
650 0 $aNatural disasters.
650 0 $aDisasters.
650 0 $aRisk assessment.
700 1 $aBostrom, Nick,$d1973-
700 1 $aĆirković, Milan M.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008006539.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008006539-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008006539-d.html