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- Title
Anticipatory Governance for Preventing and Mitigating Catastrophic and Existential Risks.
- Authors
Boyd, Matt; Wilson, Nick
- Abstract
The world faces many large-scale risks. We describe these global catastrophic and existential risks and identify some challenges in governing the prevention and mitigation of such risks. We identify that risk reduction activity in Aotearoa New Zealand has not appropriately addressed these threats. On the basis of the challenges identified, we then deduce the desired features and functions of an entity for effectively governing risk reduction approaches. We argue for an entity that is: anticipatory, central/aggregating, coordinating, apolitical, transparent, adaptive and accountable. We offer structural options for such an entity and outline the merits of several options.
- Subjects
ANTICIPATORY governance; EXTENUATING circumstances; COVID-19 pandemic; CLIMATE change; NUCLEAR winter
- Publication
Policy Quarterly, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 4, p20
- ISSN
2324-1098
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26686/pq.v17i4.7313