How to Manage Global Catastrophic Risk

Brookings Institution. 02/15/2017 This one-hour, 26-minute panel discussion focuses on the management of global catastrophic risk. Panelists discuss some of the potentially catastrophic risks the world faces today, including sea level changes caused by climate change, world poverty, pandemics such as the Zika virus and Ebola, and weapons of mass destruction. They discuss if new approaches and fresh thinking are needed in the global governance arena, and if international organizations are equipped to meet the new challenges of the modern era. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 17, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news