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03-Dec-2003
This report was drafted in response to a proposal submitted by the United States Delegation at the March 2003 meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Executive Committee in Special Session. It analyzes the economic and social impacts of recent large-scale disasters, and draws key lessons for the managment of future disasters. Its focus in primarily on restoring trust and securing recovery after a major harmful event has occurred.
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19-Nov-2003
This pilot project is gathering OECD Member Countries willing to share their experiences in addressing major risks. It has been launched in October-November 2003 as a follow-up to the OECD Futures Project on Emerging Systemic Risks, which identified the most pressing challenges in risk management that OECD countries are expected to face in the twenty-first century.
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13-Nov-2003
Risk has been an inherent concern of humans since the dawn of recorded history. Not only are there more risks situations today, but modern technological development has brought a heightened awareness of risk - both of those risks that we knew about in the past, and the emerging, new risks that are associated with the march of progress. A key element in this awareness is that we now know a great deal more about the physical world than we did in the 19th and much of the 20th century; in addition, the mechanization of much of daily life has brought human being into contact with new risks.
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The Security Economy
16-Oct-2003
“The Security Economy” aims at gaining a better understanding of the broader implications of increased security activity. Organised crime, terrorism, disruption of global supply chains, computer viruses – all have played a role in raising people’s awareness of the risks they face in today’s world. The result has been the emergence of a USD 100 billion market for security goods and services fed by growing demand from governments, businesses and private households. The security economy is expected to...
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10-Sep-2003
What is new about major risks in the 21st century? Recent years have witnessed a host of large-scale disasters of various kinds throughout the world: hugely damaging windstorms and flooding in Europe and ice storms in Canada; new diseases infecting both humans (AIDS, the Ebola virus) and animals (BSE); terrorist attacks such as those of 11 September 2001 in the United States and the Sarin gas attack in Japan; major disruptions to critical infrastructures caused by computer viruses or simply technical failure.
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This report paints an updated and richly detailed picture of the space industry, its downstream services activities, and its wider economic and social impacts.
The Space Economy at a Glance 2011
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