Future Global Shocks: Improving Risk Governance

By OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Recent global shocks, such as the 2008 financial crisis, have driven policy makers and industry strategists to re-examine how to prepare for and respond to events that can begin locally and propagate around the world with devastating effects on society and the economy. This report considers how the growing interconnectedness in the global economy could create the conditions and vectors for rapid and widespread disruptions. It looks at examples of hazards and threats that emerge from the financial world, cyberspace, biological systems and even the solar system, to reflect on what strategic capacities are called for to improve assessment, mapping, modelling, response and resilience to such large scale risks. In the same series: ?tude de l'OCDE sur la gestion des risques d'inondation, Bassin de la Loire, France (2010); OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Italy, Review of the Italian National Civil Protection System (2010); OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Japan, Large-Scale Floods and Earthquakes (2009); OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Sweden, The Safety of Older People (2007); OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Norway (2006); Large Scale Disasters, Lessons Learned (2004); Emerging Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action (2003)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9264095209
• ISBN13: 9789264095205
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 10.9"