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Catastrophe [electronic resource] : risk and response / Richard A. Posner.

By: Posner, Richard A.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: x, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Emergency management | Disasters | Risk assessment | Technological innovations -- Moral and ethical aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.34 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.