Working together to face humanity's greatest threats: Introduction to the Future of Research on Catastrophic and Existential Risk
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A risk is composed of hazards, vulnerabilities, and exposure, not just individual threats.
“Second, a risk is composed of hazards, vulnerabilities, and exposure, not just individual threats (IPCC, 2012; Avin et al., 2018; Currie and Ó hÉigeartaigh, 2018; Liu et al., 2018).”
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Section 2 (p. 3) says risk analysis should look beyond individual shocks to systemic stability, resilience and interacting threats. It does not state that risk is composed of hazards, vulnerabilities and exposure; the specific three-part formulation is unsupported by this paper. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Currie, A., & Ó hÉigeartaigh, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- ORCID
- Currie, Adrian
- Venue
- Futures
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 102
- Pages
- 1-5
- ISSN
- 0016-3287 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2852104586
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 4.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- Futures (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Apollo
- Funders
- Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF)
- Future of Life Institute
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Keywords
- existential risk, catastrophic risk, risk communication, responsibility, epistemology of risk, interdisciplinary research
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