Apocalypse Now?: Initial Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic for the Governance of Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks
This paper explores the ongoing Covid -19 pandemic through the framework of existential risks – a class of extreme risks that threaten the entire future of humanity. In doing so, we tease out three lessons: (1) possible reasons underlying the limits and shortfalls of international law, international...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 2020-12, Vol.11 (2), p.295-310 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper explores the ongoing
Covid
-19 pandemic through the framework of existential risks – a class of extreme risks that threaten the entire future of humanity. In doing so, we tease out three lessons: (1) possible reasons underlying the limits and shortfalls of international law, international institutions and other actors which
Covid
-19 has revealed, and what they reveal about the resilience or fragility of institutional frameworks in the face of existential risks; (2) using
Covid
-19 to test and refine our prior ‘Boring Apocalypses’ model for understanding the interplay of hazards, vulnerabilities and exposures in facilitating a particular disaster, or magnifying its effects; and (3) to extrapolate some possible futures for existential risk scholarship and governance. |
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ISSN: | 1878-1373 1878-1373 1878-1527 |
DOI: | 10.1163/18781527-01102004 |