Authors
Moon, Alvin, LaTourrette, Tom, Preston, Benjamin Lee, Lempert, Robert J., Goldfeld, Dahlia Anne, Garber, Chandra, Gerstein, Daniel M., Boudreaux, Benjamin, Lawson, Emily, Geist, Edward, Van Abel, Kristin, Espinosa, Bianca, Lathrop, Emily, Willis, Henry H., Osburg, Jan, Yonekura, Emmi, Bhatt, Sunny D., Kalra, Nidhi, Narayanan, Anu
Related Organizations
- Division
- RAND Homeland Security Research Division Disaster Management and Resilience Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center
- Pages
- 12
- Published in
- United States
- RAND Identifier
- RB-A2981-1
- RAND Type
- research brief
- Rights
- RAND Corporation
- Series
- Research Briefs
- Source
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA2981-1.html
Table of Contents
- Key Takeaways 2
- Key Findings 2
- Recommendations 2
- How Did the Researchers Assess Risk 3
- Understanding Global Catastrophic Risk 4
- Hazard and Threat Consequences Can Result in a Variety of Outcomes 4
- Consequences that contribute to risk include mortality ecosystem instability societal instability and reduced human capability. 5
- Grappling with Probability and Uncertainty 6
- Variation in the Geographic Extent of Hazard and Threat Consequences 6
- THRE AT OR HA Z ARD THRE AT OR HA Z ARD 7
- Factors That Will Affect Levels of Risk in the Future 7
- Managing Global Catastrophic Risk 8
- Aligning Risk Management to the Nature of Specific Hazards 8
- Risk Management Interventions 9
- Three Types of Risk Mitigation Efforts 10
- Recommendations for U.S. and Global Policymakers 12
