Governing Boring Apocalypses: A new typology of existential vulnerabilities and exposures for existential risk research
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Alternative frameworks for classifying global catastrophic risks have yet to be widely adopted.
“While there have been some alternative frameworks for classifying GCRs (Avin et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2018; Baum and Barrett, 2019), these have yet to be widely adopted.”
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A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk
Tang, A., & Kemp, L. (2021) · Frontiers in Climate · doi:10.3389/fclim.2021.720312 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
“While there have been some alternative frameworks for classifying GCRs (Avin et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2018; Baum and Barrett, 2019), these have yet to be widely adopted.”
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- Authors
- Liu, H.-Y., Lauta, K. C., & Maas, M. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Hin-Yan
- Venue
- Futures
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 102
- Pages
- 6-19
- ISSN
- 0016-3287 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2800447667
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 14.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Futures (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- The Centre for the Study of Existential Risks
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Keywords
- existential risk, social vulnerability, exposure, human extinction, technical systems, emergent risks, risk governance, risk policy, social resilience
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