as well as the considerations of catastrophic risk and extremal events. Leading experts address questions of economic … governance, risk management, policy decision making and distribution across time and space …Part I. Catastrophic risk in economic theory -- Catastrophic Risk, Rare Events, and Black Swans: Toward an Alternative …

world. …

. Global warming reveals that the current evolution of the world energy consumption is on an unsustainable path. This book …

the world and is severely affected by recurrent extreme climate-related events. This volume documents and analyzes the …

); and co-benefits of resilience measures beyond just disaster risk (the third dividend), such as flood embankments in …Chapter 1. The triple dividend of resilience - a new narrative for disaster risk management and development -- Chapter … 2. Unlocking economic potential: the ‘development dividend’ of resilience -- Chapter 3. Co-benefits of disaster risk …

’s predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world’s high-income nations must begin the transition to a … protocol and emissions-trading framework is likely to achieve a desirable climate change outcome. Failure of the world …’s leaders to achieve these goals will not only put future human well-being at risk, it will threaten freedom in the liberal …