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Worst-case scenarios / Cass R. Sunstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sunstein, Cass R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk perception.
- Policy sciences.
- Climatic changes--Government policy--United States.
- Climatic changes.
- Terrorism--Government policy--United States.
- Terrorism.
- Ozone layer depletion--Government policy--United States.
- Ozone layer depletion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Of Terrorism and Climate Change
- 2. A Tale of Two Protocols
- 3. Catastrophe
- 4. Irreversibility
- 5. Money
- 6. The Future
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Index
- Notes:
- "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674267640
- 0674267648
- 9780674033535
- 0674033531
- OCLC:
- 654488763
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