Worst cases terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination /

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Main Author: Clarke, Lee Ben
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Worst cases : be afraid, be very afraid
  • 2. The sky could be falling : globally relevant disasters and the perils of probabilism
  • 3. What's the worst that can happen? 4. Power, politics, and panic in worst cases
  • 5. Silver linings : the good from the worst
  • 6. Living and dying in worst case worlds.