Catastrophe: Risk and Response

By Richard A. Posner. 2004

334 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b71236fe6813f57818c1b3cf3bf74f0a0e068829

Citations in the corpus

• The New World of Crises and Crisis Management: Implications for Policymaking and Research (2009, neutral): “The frequency, nature, and consequences of these adverse events are changing (Missiroli, 2006; OECD, 2003; Posner, 2004; Quarantelli, Lagadec, & Boin, 2006; Robb, 2007).”
• On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change (2009, neutral): “Condition (21) signi…es that for any given < 1 (which via (16) puts a positive lower”
• Crisis exploitation: political and policy impacts of framing contests (2009, neutral): “Crises, disasters and political scandals often cast long shadows on the polities in which they occur (Birkland 1997, 2006; Baumgartner and Jones 1993, 2002; Lomborg 2004; Posner 2004).”
• Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies (2010, neutral): “A range of recent work has described how these two styles are in the midst of being supplemented by a third across efforts to govern terrorism (Clarke, 2005), abrupt climate change (Posner, 2004) and trans-species epidemics (Cooper, 2006).”
• Human rights, climate change, and discounting (2008, neutral): “…to imposing heavy sacrifices on any generation to promote the well-being of its successors (Lomborg 2001, p. 314, Pearce et al. 2003, pp. 124–125, Posner 2004, pp. 152–153).14 Prior to evaluating this argument, note that this defence of a positive discount rate has the feature which I suggested…”
• INFORMATION HAZARDS: A TYPOLOGY OF POTENTIAL HARMS FROM KNOWLEDGE (2011, neutral): “To proceed blithely and without scruple, as though nothing very bad could come from such research, was perhaps excusable naïveté back then.(48) For our own generation, which is able to observe more historical precedent, such negligence would more likely amount to culpable abrogation of moral respon”