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An Agenda for Action
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ISBN Number: 9789264101227 |
The 21st Century has so far witnessed a host of large-scale disasters in various parts of the world including: windstorms, flooding, new diseases infesting both humans and animals, terrorist attacks and major disruptions to critical infrastructures.
It is not just the nature of major risks that seems to be changing, but also the context in which risks are evolving as well as society’s capacity to manage them.
This book explores the implications of these developments for economy and society in the 21st century, focussing in particular on the potentially significant increase in the vulnerability of major systems.
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It concentrates on five large risk clusters: natural disasters, technological accidents, infectious diseases, food safety and terrorism, identifies the challenges facing OECD countries and sets out recommendations for governments and the private sector as to how the management of emerging systemic risks might be improved.
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Mulit-lingual summaries |
Summaries available in Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
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Assessment and Recommendations |
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Introduction and summary
Emerging systemic risks
Risk assessment
Risk prevention
Emergency management
Recovery issues
Conclusions and recommendations
Annexes
For more information on Risk Management, contact jack.radisch@oecd.org or Stéphane.jacobzone@oecd.org
OECD work on Risk Management: www.oecd.org/gov/risk
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