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03-déc.-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
Le risque est indissociable de notre vie depuis l’aube de l’humanité. Non seulement les situations de risque sont plus nombreuses aujourd’hui, mais les progrès de la technologie nous y ont sensibilisés davantage, qu’il s’agisse de ceux que nous connaissions déjà dans le passé, ou de nouveaux risques émergents qui sont associés à la marche du progrès. L’un des éléments clés de cette prise de conscience est que nous en savons aujourd’hui beaucoup plus sur le monde physique qu’au XIXè siècle et que pendant une bonne partie du XXè.
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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-sept.-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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