The World's Worst Problems

• Main Author: Dodds, Walter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Statistics .; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Infectious diseases.; Natural resources.; Economic development.; Culture.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Infectious Diseases.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Development and Health.; Sociology of Culture.

This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The book presents indices of proble...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1. Introduction
• Chapter2. Global problems
• Chapter3. Apocalypse
• Chapter4. Disease Now and Potential Future Pandemics
• Chapter5. Hunger
• Chapter6. Nuclear Weapons
• Chapter7. Global environment in the Anthropocene
• Chapter8. By the Numbers: Ranking the Problems
• Chapter9. What do other people think the worst problems in the world are?
• Chapter 10. Progress toward solving the problems and potential costs of solutions
• Chapter11. Technochimp: An African savannah survivor looking for solutions in the modern world Our inability to see the big picture; it never mattered before, why does it now?
• Chapter12. International cooperation
• Chapter13. Consilience, global socioeconomic political enlightenment, and socioenvironmental restoration.