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Pages: 313
Authors: Ulrich Beck
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-29 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think
Earth at Risk
Language: en
Pages: 498
Authors: Claude Henry
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-19 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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We are squandering our planet’s natural capital—its biodiversity, water and soil, and climate stability—at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made t
World at Risk
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Commission on Prevention/WMDs
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-03 - Publisher: Vintage

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“The greatest danger of another catastrophic attack in the United States will materialize if the world's most dangerous terrorists acquire the world's most da
Lives at Risk
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: John C. Goodman
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Virtually everyone agrees that our health care system needs reform. But what kind of reform? Some want a return to the system that prevailed in the 1950s. Other
Global Catastrophic Risks
Language: en
Pages: 577
Authors: Nick Bostrom
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on such risks arisin