Global catastrophic risks / 
edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2008. 
 - xxii, 554 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Long-term astrophysical processes /  Evolution theory and the future of humanity /  Millennial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats /  Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks /  Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks /  Systems-based risk analysis /  Catastrophes and insurance /  Public policy toward catastrophe /  Super-volcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import /  Hazards from comets and asteroids /  Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment /  Climate change and global risk /  Plagues and pandemics : past, present, and future /  Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk /  Big troubles, imagined and real /  Catastrophe, social collapse, and human extinction /  The continuing threat of nuclear war /  Catastrophic nuclear terrorism : a preventable peril /  Biotechnology and biosecurity /  Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk /  The totalitarian threat /  Fred C. Adams --  Christopher Wills --  James J. Hughes --  Eliezer Yudkowsky --  Milan M. Ćirković --  Yacov Y. Haimes --  Peter Taylor --  Richard A. Posner --  Michael R. Rampino --  William Napier --  Arnon Dar --  David Frame and Myles R. Allen --  Edwin Dennis Kilbourne --  Eliezer Yudkowsky --  Frank Wilczek --  Robin Hanson --  Joseph Cirincione --  Gary Ackerman and William C. Potter --  Ali Nouri and Christopher F. Chyba --  Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder --  Bryan Caplan. 
<br/><br/> "In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts look at the gravest risks facing humanity in the 21st century, including natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general artificial intelligence, and social collapse. The book also addresses over-arching issues - policy responses and methods for predicting and managing catastrophes." "Bostrom pioneered the concept of existential risk and the simulation argument. He developed the first mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects and is the author of a number of seminal studies on the implications of future technologies."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199606504 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008006539 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Natural disasters.<br/>Disasters.<br/>Risk assessment.<br/>Disasters.<br/>Risk Assessment.<br/>Armes nucléaires.<br/>Désastres naturels.<br/>Analyse des risques.<br/>Armes biologiques.<br/>Nanotechnologies.<br/>Disasters.<br/>Natural disasters.<br/>Risk assessment.<br/>Katastrophe.<br/>Risikoanalyse.<br/>Katastrophe.<br/>Risiko.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GB5014  / .G547 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.34