Walter Dodds: The World's Worst Problems

Um unseren Shop nutzen zu können, müssen Sie Javascript in Ihrem Browser aktivieren.

Cover: 9783030304096 | The World's Worst Problems | Walter Dodds | Taschenbuch | Paperback

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

25,60 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 4-7 Werktage

Sie können kein Produkt in den Warenkorb legen, da Javascript und technisch notwendige Cookies aktiviert sein müssen.

Kategorien:

Der Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache verfasst.
Die Sprache der Produktbeschreibung und Details kann in Englisch angegeben sein. Sollten Sie Verständnisprobleme haben, wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.

Beschreibung

This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The book presents indices of problem severity to compare relative intensity of current and potential crises. The approach avoids emotional argument using mainly empirical evidence to support the classification of relative problem severity. The author discusses multiple global problems and ranks them. He also explores specific solutions to each problem, links problems to human behavior from a social science perspective, considers international cooperation, and finally pathways to solutions.

The book discusses confirmation bias and why this necessitates a scientific approach to tackle problems. The moral assumption that each person has the same rights to life and minimal suffering, and that the natural world has a right to exist, forms the basis of ranking problems based on death, suffering, and harm to the natural world. A focus is given to potential disasters such as asteroid collisions and super-volcanic eruptions, which are then presented in chapters that address specific contemporary global issues including disease, hunger, nuclear weapons and climate change. Furthermore the author then ranks the problems based on an index of problem severity, considering what other people think the worst problems are. The relative economic costs to solve each of these problems, individual behavior in the face of these problems, how people could work together internationally to combat them, and a general pathway toward solutions form the basis of the final chapters. This work will appeal to a wide range of readers, students considering how they can help the world, and scientists and policy makers interested in global problem solving.

Über den Autor

Walter Dodds is a University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University and an Edwin G. and Lillian J. Brychta Chair in Biology. He specializes in environmental aspects of freshwater ecology. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications and has authored several books including Humanity's Footprint (on global environmental issues) and Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology (a graduate overview of ecology). He is a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, the Society for Freshwater Science, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

Zusammenfassung

Presents issues that are globally important to mankind

Provides a new quantitative framework for approaching problem severity

Showcases new insights into the perception of global problems and how people go about solving and thinking about them

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter1. Introduction.- Chapter2. Global problems.- Chapter3. Apocalypse.- Chapter4. Disease Now and Potential Future Pandemics.- Chapter5. Hunger.- Chapter6. Nuclear Weapons.- Chapter7. Global environment in the Anthropocene.- Chapter8. By the Numbers: Ranking the Problems.- Chapter9. What do other people think the worst problems in the world are?.- Chapter 10. Progress toward solving the problems and potential costs of solutions.- Chapter11. Technochimp: An African savannah survivor looking for solutions in the modern world Our inability to see the big picture; it never mattered before, why does it now?.- Chapter12. International cooperation.- Chapter13. Consilience, global socioeconomic political enlightenment, and socioenvironmental restoration.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Genre:	Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	160
Inhalt:	xi 146 S. 16 s/w Illustr. 5 farbige Illustr. 146 p. 21 illus. 5 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030304096
ISBN-10:	3030304094
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dodds, Walter
Auflage:	1st ed. 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	235 x 155 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Walter Dodds
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.12.2019
Gewicht:	0,287 kg

preigu-id: 117117598